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"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be."
- Paul Valery, More quotation on The Future. | |
"What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves."
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"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."
- Paul Valery, More quotation on Poetry. | |
"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."
- Paul Valery. | |
"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through."
- Paul Valery, More quotation on God. | |
"That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false."
- Paul Valery. | |
"The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us."
- Paul Valery, 1895. | |
"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them."
- Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943), More quotation on Politics. |
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