Quotes by Paul Valery

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Love is being stupid together.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.