An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
- Paul Valery - In Art
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The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
- Paul Valery - In Dreams
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Love is being stupid together.
- Paul Valery - In Love
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery - In Poetry
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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
- Paul Valery - In Politics
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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
- Paul Valery - In Religion
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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.
- Paul Valery - In Science
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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
- Paul Valery - In Time
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