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Dichter, Kritiker, "Dialoge und Theater", "Monsieur Teste", "Zur Zeitgeschichte und Politik" (Frankreich, 1871 - 1945).

Paul Ambroise Valéry · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Paul Ambroise Valéry wäre heute 153 Jahre, 4 Monate, 12 Tage oder 56.018 Tage alt.

Geboren am 30.10.1871 in Sète
Gestorben am 20.07.1945 in Paris
Sternzeichen: ♏ Skorpion

• Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

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• Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. The rest is literature.

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• Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

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• The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

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• Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized - a world of which we now fear the inextricable complexity.

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• To be feared are those who don't say what they think and those who don't think what they say.

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• To enter one's own self, it is necessary to go armed to the teeth.

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• To know oneself is not necessarily to improve oneself.

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• Truth confronts us, and we can no longer understand anything.

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• Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

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• Two things are constantly threatening this world: order and disorder.

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• Vanity is only being sensitive to what other people probably think of us.

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• What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

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• Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.

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• "L'Avenir » est la parcelle plus sensible de l'instant.

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• "L'esprit » est peut-être un des moyens que l'Univers s'est trouvé pour en finir au plus vite.

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• A craindre sont ceux qui ne disent pas ce qu'ils pensent et ceux qui ne pensent pas ce qu'ils disent.
  • Lucien Giordani spricht . . .

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• Ah! Le soleil . . . Quelle ombre de tortue pour l'âme, Achille immobile à grands pas!

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• Au XVIIIe siècle seulement les portraits sont expressifs. Les visages marquent l'instant.

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• Baisers, baves d'amour, basses béatitudes, ô mouvements marins des amants confondus.

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