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Paul Valery Quotes

«We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.»
Author: Paul Valery (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | About: Self-love | Keywords: condemn, contrary, losing, mixture, mixtures, permanently, prevents, prohibit, prohibited, prohibiting, prohibits, pursues, self-loving, selfishness, self love, wont, wont to
«Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.»
Author: Paul Valery (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | Keywords: bitterness, crowning, curses, enlist, enlisted, fooled, helpless, humiliation, impotent, inflicts, latent, loathes, prey, rage, resentment, ruthless, savage, sorry for, The Victim, trapped, venom, victim
«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»
Author: Paul Valery (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | About: Misfortune | Keywords: block, brake, brakes, eyelid, mask, organ
«Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.»
Author: Paul Valery (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | Keywords: flesh
«That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.»
Author: Paul Valery (Critic, Essayist, Poet)
«Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.»
Author: Paul Valery (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | About: Politics
«History is the science of things which are not repeated.»
Author: Paul Valery (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | About: History | Keywords: history of science, repeated
«Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.»
Author: Paul Valery (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | About: Politics | Keywords: busying
«We are enriched by our reciprocate differences»
Author: Paul Valery (Critic, Essayist, Poet) | Keywords: enriched, reciprocate, reciprocated, reciprocating
«A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts»
Author: Paul Valery (Critic, Essayist, Poet)
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