French - Poet | October 30, 1871 - July 20, 1945
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
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A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
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The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
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Love is being stupid together.
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The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
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A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
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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.
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
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A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
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