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.

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver,....

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

Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing....

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

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people.

Degas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.

For the fact is that disorder is the condition of the mind's fertility: it contains the mind's promise,....

Life blackens at the contact of truth.