It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words,… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“All our language is composed of brief little dreams; and the wonderful thing is that we sometimes make of them strangely accurate… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“What soul would hesitate to turn the universe upside down in order to be a little more itself?” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“Anxious to know, yet only too happy to ignore, we seek in what is, a remedy for what is not; and in… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself! — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but abandoned; and this abandonment, whether to the flames or to the public (and which is the result of weariness or an obligation to deliver) is a kind of an accident to them, like the breaking off of a… — Paul Valery Copy Share
“O Socrates, the universe cannot for one instant endure to be only what it is. It is strange to think that that which is All cannot be sufficient unto itself!” — Paul Valéry Copy Share
It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“I am now going to make an admission. I confess, I agree, that all these good people who protested, who laughed, who did not perceive what we perceived, were in a quite legitimate position. Their opinion was quite in order. One must not be afraid to say that the kingdom of letters is only a province of the vast empire… — Paul Valery Copy Share
“Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
