Quotes of Paul Valery - somelinesforyou

“ In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished--a word that for them has no sense--but abandoned; and this abandonment, whether to the flames or to the public (and which is the result of weariness or an obligation to deliver) is a kind of an accident to them, like the breaking off of a reflection, which fatigue, irritation, or something similar has made worthless. ”

- Paul Valery

“ A poem is never finished, only abandoned. ”

- Paul Valery

“ Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. ”

- Paul Valery

“ A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts. ”

- Paul Valery

“ Love is being stupid together. ”

- Paul Valery

“ Every beginning is a consequence — every beginning ends some thing. ”

- Paul Valery

“ The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. ”

- Paul Valery

“ A poem is never finished, only abandoned. ”

- Paul Valery

“ The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. ”

- Paul Valery

“ A poem is never finished, only abandoned. ”

- Paul Valery

“ A poem is never finished, only abandoned. ”

- Paul Valery

“ Love is being stupid together. ”

- Paul Valery

“ An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it. ”

- Paul Valery

“ The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. ”

- Paul Valery

“ Love is being stupid together. ”

- Paul Valery

“ Politeness is organized indifference. ”

- Paul Valery

“ Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error. ”

- Paul Valery

“ Une philosophie doit etre portative. ”

- Paul Valery

“ God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly ”

- Paul Valery

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

- Paul Valery

“ Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error. ”

- Paul Valery

“ Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph. ”

- Paul Valery

“ Poems are never finished just abandoned ”

- Paul Valery

“ Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist. ”

- Paul Valery

“ What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully. ”

- Paul Valery

“ L'éducation ne se borne pas à l'enfance et à l'adolescence. L'enseignement ne se limite pas à l'école. Toute la vie, notre milieu est notre éducation, et un éducateur à la fois sévère et dangereux. Learning transcends childhood and adolescence just as teaching transcends the classroom. Our environment is the most strict and dangerous educator we will ever have. ”

- Paul Valery

“ L'éducation ne se borne pas à l'enfance et à l'adolescence. L'enseignement ne se limite pas à l'école. Toute la vie, notre milieu est notre éducation, et un éducateur à la fois sévère et dangereux. Learning transcends childhood and adolescence just as teaching transcends the classroom. Our environment is the most strict and dangerous educator we will ever have. ”

- Paul Valery

“ L'éducation ne se borne pas à l'enfance et à l'adolescence. L'enseignement ne se limite pas à l'école. Toute la vie, notre milieu est notre éducation, et un éducateur à la fois sévère et dangereux. Learning transcends childhood and adolescence just as teaching transcends the classroom. Our environment is the most strict and dangerous educator we will ever have. ”

- Paul Valery

“ Les livres ont les mêmes ennemis que l'homme : le feu, l'humide, les bêtes, le temps, et leur propre contenu. ”

- Paul Valery

“ Les livres ont les mêmes ennemis que l'homme : le feu, l'humide, les bêtes, le temps, et leur propre contenu. ”

- Paul Valery
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