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Results from Classic Quotes:

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished--a word that for them has no sense--but abandoned; and this abandonment, whether to the flames or to the public (and which is the result of weariness or an obligation to deliver) is a kind of an accident to them, like the breaking off of a reflection, which fatigue, irritation, or something similar has made worthless.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
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Results from Cole's Quotables:

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.: Paul Valéry (1871 - 1945)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)

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