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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery
Work
Artist
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
Paul Valery
Intellect
Present
Universe
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
Paul Valery
People
Profit
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
Dreams
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.
Paul Valery
Time
Thoughts
Infinite
Possibilities
Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
Paul Valery
Writer
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery
Future
Trouble
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
Paul Valery
Idea
Purpose
Psychology
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery
Discovery
Folly
Metaphor
Oracle
Paradox
Proof
Spring
Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
Paul Valery
People
Ideas
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
Paul Valery
Science
Successful
Literature
Rest
Power without abuse loses its charm.
Paul Valery
Power
Abuse
Charm
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Paul Valery
Art
Business
Politics
People
Politeness is organized indifference.
Paul Valery
Indifference
Politeness
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
Paul Valery
Being
Chance