Quotes by : Paul Valéry

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

Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph.

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think....

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion,....

Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that....

Consciousness reigns but doesn't govern.

Life blackens at the contact of truth.

Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.