Paul Valery quotes
"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be."
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"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through."
"God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly."
"A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen."
"Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery."
"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."
"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."
"Love is being stupid together."
"What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves."