02UndatedGod created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenlyPaul Valéry / quote ↗
04UndatedNothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.Paul Valéry / quote ↗
07UndatedFollow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.Paul Valéry / quote ↗
08UndatedWhat one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.Paul Valéry / quote ↗
12UndatedDegas is one of the very few painters who have given the floor its true importance.Paul Valéry / quote ↗
13UndatedFor the fact is that disorder is the condition of the mind's fertility: it contains the mind's promise, since its fertility depends on the unexpected rather than the expected, depends on what we do not know, and because we do not know it, than what we know.Paul Valéry / quote ↗
14UndatedThe purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.Paul Valéry / quote ↗
16UndatedWhat others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.Paul Valéry / quote ↗
18UndatedA work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.Paul Valéry / quote ↗
