Juan Valera
View AuthorUnfortunately, one thing is to feel and another is to express well what is felt.
Paul Valéry
View AuthorWhat has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has all the possibilities of being false.
Paul Valéry
View AuthorOur most important thoughts are those that contradict our feelings.
Paul Valéry
View AuthorWar is a massacre between people who do not know each other, for the benefit of people who do know each other but do not massacre each other.
Paul Valéry
View AuthorWhen someone licks the soles of your shoes, put your foot on top of them before they start to bite you.
Paul Valéry
View AuthorBooks have the same enemies as man: fire, humidity, animals, time, and their own content.
Paul Valéry
View AuthorAll our enemies are mortal.
Paul Valéry
View AuthorA lonely man is always in bad company.
Paul Valéry
View AuthorWhat unforeseen thing can there be for the one who has foreseen nothing?
Paul Valéry
View AuthorPoetry is the ambition to discourse, which aspires to be laden with more meanings and anointed with more music than ordinary language.
Paul Valéry
View AuthorThe gods facilitate the first verse; the rest, the poet makes.
Paul Valéry
View AuthorWhat does not resemble anything does not exist.