Quotes by Paul Valery

"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."

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"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business."

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

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"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be."

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"A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone."

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"Love is being stupid together."

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"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through."

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"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."

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"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other."

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"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."

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