More Quotes by Paul Valéry
One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
A man who is of 'sound mind' is one who keeps his inner madman under lock and key.
To live means to lack something at every moment
Politeness is organized indifference.
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.
The wind is rising! . . . We must try to live!
Sometime I think; and sometime I am.
