"Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas……" — Paul Valery
"Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious."
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Paul Valery
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128 Quotes by Paul Valery
Paul Valery has 128 quotes on this site.
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The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
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Sometimes I think and other times I am.
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At times I think and at times I am.
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To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone -…
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What is simple is false and what is not is useless.
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Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.
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The only truths which are universal are those gross enough to be thought so.
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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for,…
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Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your…
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The great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever did vices
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Advertising has annihilated the power of the most powerful adjectives.
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That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
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