Paul Valery

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Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
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.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
History is the science of things which are not repeated.
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
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.
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Power without abuse loses its charm.
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

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