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Quotes from Paul Valery

Svojstva tela su utoliko manje poznata ukoliko su stalnija. Što su više kao odvojiva od tela, ili promenjiva, više ih hvatamo. Toplina nam je pristupa?nija nego težina.
~ Paul Valery
El viento se levanta… ¡hay que intentar vivir!
~ Paul Valery
Ce qui m'intéresse n'est pas toujours ce qui m'importe.
~ Paul Valery
Un choc qui nous atteint dans une direction imprévue nous donne brusquement une sensation nouvelle de l'existence de notre corps en tant qu'inconnu; nous ne savions pas tout ce que nous étions, et il arrive que cette sensation brutale nous rende elle-même sensibles, par un effet secondaire, à une grandeur et à une figure inattendues de notre domaine vivant.
~ Paul Valery
I have put my soul and trust in flowers. Occult flowers, flowers of premonition.
~ Paul Valery
La meilleure façon de réaliser ses rêves est de se réveiller. The best way of making your dreams come true, is to wake up.
~ Paul Valery
Le vent se lève, Il faut tenter de vivre!
~ Paul Valery
Hide your god, men must hide their true gods with great care.
~ Paul Valery
La saveur des fruits d'un arbre ne dépend pas de la figure du paysage qui l'environne, mais de la richesse invisible du terrain.
~ Paul Valery
Ce s-ar întâmpla cu noi, f?r? ajutorul a ceea ce nu exist??
~ Paul Valery
The deeper education consists in unlearning one's first education.
~ Paul Valery
The confused murmur of his nights began to rise, expected but not familiar
~ Paul Valery
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
~ Paul Valery
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
~ Paul Valery
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
~ Paul Valery
Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.
~ Paul Valery
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
~ Paul Valery
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
~ Paul Valery
A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.
~ Paul Valery
La politique est l'art d'empcher les gens de se mler de ce qui les regarde. (Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
~ Paul Valery
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
~ Paul Valery
Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
~ Paul Valery
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
~ Paul Valery
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
~ Paul Valery