Quotes by Paul Valery

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

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

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

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

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

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.