Paul Valéry's most famous quotes
The top 3 according to 8 votes from people: The wind is rising!… We must try to live! · We civilizations now know that we are mortal. · Patience, patience, / patience in the blue! / Every atom of silence / is the chance of a ripe fruit!. (Updated Oct 22, 2020.)
"The wind is rising!… We must try to live!", "We civilizations now know that we are mortal" and the poem as "that prolonged hesitation between sound and sense": Paul Valéry's most quoted lines, from The Graveyard by the Sea to Tel quel, with their source.
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Top 15
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The wind is rising!… We must try to live!
"The Graveyard by the Sea", Charmes (1922).
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We civilizations now know that we are mortal.
"The Crisis of the Mind" (1919), Variété.
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Patience, patience, / patience in the blue! / Every atom of silence / is the chance of a ripe fruit!
"Palm", Charmes (1922).
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Stupidity is not my strong point.
Monsieur Teste (1896).
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The historian does for the past what the fortune-teller does for the future. But the witch can be checked, the historian cannot.
Reflections on the World Today (1931).
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Waking up gives dreams a reputation they do not deserve.
Tel quel (1941).
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7
Power without abuse loses its charm.
Tel quel (1941).
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The poem: that prolonged hesitation between sound and sense.
Tel quel (1941).
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9
Finding is nothing. The hard part is adding what you find to yourself.
Monsieur Teste (1896).
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10
The self is hateful… but it is other people's self we mean.
Mélange (1939).
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11
Lies and credulity mate and give birth to Opinion.
Mélange (1939).
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12
Growing old means experiencing the change of what is stable.
Tel quel (1941).
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13
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, damp, animals, time; and their own contents.
Tel quel (1941).
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14
Hear the strangest words: there will be people after us.
Tel quel (1941).
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15
Be yourself!… But is yourself worth it?
Mauvaises pensées et autres (1942).
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