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About Paul Valery

Paul Valery was a 19th-century French poet, essayist, and philosopher. Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules ValĂ©ry was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction, his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Peace — The pursuit of harmony, reconciliation, and inner calm

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“Love is being stupid together.”
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“At times I think and at times I am.”
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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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Spring Discovery Paradox

“Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.”
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“God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.”
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God Nothing Through

“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.”
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