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Best Quotes by Paul Valery (Top 10)
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The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
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Love is being stupid together.
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A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
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A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
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Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
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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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A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
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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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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.
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Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
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The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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History is the science of things which are not repeated.
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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
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The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
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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 man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
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