Author: Paul Valery

Quotes

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

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

- Paul Valery

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

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

- Paul Valery

At times I think and at times I am.

At times I think and at times I am.

- Paul Valery

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

- 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.

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

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.

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.

- Paul Valery

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.

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.

- Paul Valery

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.

- Paul Valery

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

- Paul Valery

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