Paul Valery Quotes - Page 2

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• Politeness is organized indifference.

  Paul Valery

  Indifference, Politeness, Organized

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

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• Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

  Paul Valery

  Rights, Society, Moments

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• Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

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  Ideas, People, Serious

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• A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun.

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  Light, Mindfulness, Sun

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• What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.

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  Simple, Complicated, Understood

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• A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.

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  Reality, Men, Keeping Secrets

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• [Beauty is] that which makes us despair.

  Paul Valery

  Despair

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• It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.

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  Love, Relationship, Distance

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• Love is being stupid together.

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  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

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• If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.

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  Love You, Ego, Hateful

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• One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.

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  Light, Bird, Should

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• Beware of what you do best; its bound to be a trap.

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  Advice, Traps, Bounds

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• Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

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  Attitude, Reality, Judging

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• The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.

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  Giving, Balance, World

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• Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

  Paul Valery

  Men, Ideas, Doing Nothing

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• Interruption, incoherence, surprise are the ordinary conditions of our life. They have even become real needs for many people, whose minds are no longer fed by anything but sudden changes and constantly renewed stimuli. We can no longer bear anything that lasts. We no longer know how to make boredom bear fruit. So the whole question comes down to this: can the human mind master what the human mind has made?

  Paul Valery

  Real, Boredom, People

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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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• We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.

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  Courage, Long, Needs

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• Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

  Paul Valery

  Dance, Journey, Hiking

  Talk on BBC Radio, January 13, 1976.

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• A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.

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  Writing, Vocabulary, Mind

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• to live means to lack something at every moment

  Paul Valery

  Mean, Moments

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• A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

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  Inspirational, Life, Witty

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Writing, Doe

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• My poems mean what people take them to mean.

  Paul Valery

  Mean, People

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

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  Psychics, Empowerment, Ironic

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

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