Love is being stupid together.
Category Archive: Paul Valery
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
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.
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
A man who is ‘of sound mind’ is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.