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More Quotes by Paul Valéry
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.
The wind is rising! . . . We must try to live!
To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.
Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.
Those who cannot attack the thought, instead attack the thinker.
One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
Poems are never finished - just abandoned.
Politeness is organized indifference.
A man who is of 'sound mind' is one who keeps his inner madman under lock and key.