“Our fine arts were developed, their types and uses were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
What golden hour of life, what glittering moment will ever equal the pain its loss can cause? — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
I thought it necessary to study history, even to study it deeply, in order to obtain a clear meaning of our immediate… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
It is a sign of the times, and not a very good sign, that these days it is necessary and not only… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior… — 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… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“O Socrates, the universe cannot for one instant endure to be only what it is. It is strange to think that that which is… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
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… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“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
