Quote #28

On a toujours cherche des explications quand c'etait des representations qu'on pouvait seulement essaye d'inventer.

More from Paul Valery

  1. Modern man no longer works at what cannot be abbreviated.
  2. The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
  3. Ma main se sent touchee aussi bien qu'elle touche ; reel veut dire cela, et rien de plus.
  4. The future is not what it used to be.
  5. A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to it-that is to say, gives it to the public.
  6. The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
  7. A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
  8. To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

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