Quotes by : Paul Valery

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the paper....

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what....

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude....

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This ... is a precious gift.....

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

Love is being stupid together.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude....