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Paul Valery

Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), full name Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry, was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 12 different years.

Wisdom & Quotes

  • Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
- Mauvaises Pensées
  • Good memories are lost jewels.
- Mauvaises Pensées
  • Vanity is only being sensitive to what other people probably think of us.
- Mauvaises Pensées
  • To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself.
- Choses Tues
  • To enter one's own self, it is necessary to go armed to the teeth.
- Quelques Pensées de Monsieur Teste
  • Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concerns them.
- Tel quel
  • Truth confronts us, and we can no longer understand anything.
- Eupalinos

Learned Hand

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