That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
Paul Valery Quotations
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A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language.
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
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.
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Two dangers constantly threaten the world order and disorder.
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
Love is being stupid together.
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.