{"id":11377,"date":"2016-05-13T14:44:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=11377"},"modified":"2016-05-13T14:44:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:44:58","slug":"Famous_Quotes_by_Paul_Valery_12_Quotations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.famous-quotes.com\/?page_id=11377","title":{"rendered":"Famous Quotes by Paul Valery (12 Quotations)"},"content":{"rendered":"
1871-1945, French Poet, Essayist<\/b><\/div>\n
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A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.<\/div>\n
Paul Valery – [Thoughts and Thinking<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.<\/div>\n
Paul Valery – [Poetry and Poets<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.<\/div>\n
Paul Valery – [Work<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the paper today , we sigh.<\/div>\n
Paul Valery – [Anxiety<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.<\/div>\n
Paul Valery – [Self-sabotage<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.<\/div>\n
Paul Valery – [Truth<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Paul Valery – [Justice<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.<\/div>\n
Paul Valery – [Science and Scientists<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.<\/div>\n
Paul Valery – [Science and Scientists<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.<\/div>\n
Paul Valery – [Creativity<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.<\/div>\n
Paul Valery – [Belief<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.<\/div>\n
Paul Valery – [Future<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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