Paul Valery Quotes - Page 3

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• That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

  Paul Valery

  Psychics, Empowerment, Ironic

  "Tel Quel". Book by Paul Valery, 1943.

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• Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being helpless prey to impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, drops him, promises and betrays, and -crowning injury- inflicts on him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.

  Paul Valery

  Sorry, Men, Giving

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• No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Abandoned, Art Is

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• I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate time.

  Paul Valery

  Order, History, Study

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• Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

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  Truth, Years, Long

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• Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.

  Paul Valery

  Change, Positive, Carpe Diem

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• Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.

  Paul Valery

  Powerful, Adjectives, Advertising

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• Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

  Paul Valery

  Block, Men, Want

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• Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

  Paul Valery

  Doe, Reign, Conscience

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• Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Poetry, Fruit

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• The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.

  Paul Valery

  Used, Used To Be

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• A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Poetry

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• If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish.

  Paul Valery

  Crush, Strong, Weak

  "The Collected Works of Paul Valéry: History and politics", translated by D. Folliot and J. Mathews, 1971.

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• God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

  Paul Valery

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Drinking

  "Mauvaises Pensées et Autres". Book by Paul Valery, 1941.

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• History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

  Paul Valery

  Giving, Example, Want

  Regards sur le Monde Actuel (1931)

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• Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves, others, unable to so much as conceive of making use of it, let it waste away. Quite on the contrary, we should search for it assiduously in what we think we know best. Leaf through a dictionary or try to make one, and you will find that every word covers and masks a well so bottomless that the questions you toss into it arouse no more than an echo.

  Paul Valery

  Education, Ignorance, Men

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• That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

  Paul Valery

  Atheism, Chance, Belief

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• It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary.

  Paul Valery

  Small Numbers, Soul, Use

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• The dog has made man their God, if the dog was an atheist, it would be perfect.

  Paul Valery

  Dog, Atheist, Men

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• We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.

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  Hate, Mean, Self

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• A real writer can be recognized by the fact he doesn't find words. Therefore he must search for them and while doing that, he finds better ones.

  Paul Valery

  Real, Facts

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• Science is a collection of successful recipes.

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  Successful, Recipes, Collections

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• Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.

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  Genius, Talent

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• Love is acting stupid together.

  Paul Valery

  Stupid, Love Is, Acting

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• Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

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  Men, Skins, Surface

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