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Paul Valery Quotes: What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.
         

What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.


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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.



Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.



War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.



A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.



Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.



The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.



A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.



Love is being stupid together.

Love is being stupid together.



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



Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

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