219 Quotes by Paul Valéry

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it means.

No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.

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.

to live means to lack something at every moment

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.