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Only Quotes by Paul Valery
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.
- In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry.
- No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
- The only treaties that ought to count are those which would effect a settlement between ulterior motives.
- It is a sign of the times, and not a very good sign, that these days it is necessary and not only necessary but urgent…
- A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
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