The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
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
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Paul Valery
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
Paul Valery
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Paul Valery
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Paul Valery
History is the science of things which are not repeated.
Paul Valery
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
Paul Valery
Love is being stupid together.
Paul Valery
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valery
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
Paul Valery
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Paul Valery
Power without abuse loses its charm.
Paul Valery
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
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.
Paul Valery
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
Paul Valery
History is the science of things which are not repeated.
Paul Valery
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
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.
Paul Valery
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery