Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad. — Paul Valery Bears Copy Share Image
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
If disorder is the rule with you, you will be penalized for installing order. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business. — Paul Valery Art Copy Share Image
The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“Le vent se lève, il faut tantrer de vivre = El viento se levanta, hay que intentar vivir” — Paul Valéry Amor Copy Share Image
What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their… — Paul Valery Attitude Copy Share Image
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“I would hear the song of the columns and visualize in the pure sky the monument of a melody.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“But hope is only man's mistrust of the clear foresight of his mind.” — Paul Valéry Hope Copy Share Image
