Paul Valery Quotes

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• The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
• Sometimes I think and other times I am.
• At times I think and at times I am.
• Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
• To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it…
• What is simple is false and what is not is useless.
• Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.
• The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
• 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…
• Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's…
• The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices
• Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
• That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
• All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.
• Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have…
• We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.
• Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.
• You have certainly observed the curious fact that a given word which is perfectly clear when you hear it or use it in everyday language,…
• The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to…
• A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the…

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