Paul Valéry
My son, I will raise him very badly because I am unable to give precepts that do not understand.
My life is nothing extraordinary. But my way of thinking about it transforms.
How difficult is to think without sighing!
men not disregard. On the contrary, but Man. This beast that I would not have invented.
am extremely sociable and infinitely lonely.
Love is feeling that we have transferred to another, despite yourself, what was but for oneself.
Life as a necessary phenomenon. How could the world make it necessary to life? What may need life?
Awakening began as a dream.
Awareness is related in each moment what we think or do with what we might think or do.
What and how much we do not think influences what we think?
is unknown what led to myself what makes me me.
friendship, love, is to be weak together.
Love is a substitute for knowledge that we can not reach and replace a possession by a spasm. But that lightning illuminates nothing.
The biggest problem is one that can be solved.
If you do not get to anything else, at least I'll know what to ignore.
is rare that one will make you laugh when alone.
Intelligence is only the choice between memories.
Man forgets this, his memory forever. Memory is so easily forget the world.
Memory is the future of the past.
The only thing constant is the notion of this.
time, distance inland.
What is a fool? "Perhaps no more than an uncritical mind. Who is content with little, little.
must enter yourself armed to the teeth.
What has ruined the "conservative" is the wrong choice of things to be retained.
Paul Valéry, Papers (1894-1945)