The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.
Paul ValeryA work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.
Paul ValeryWhat one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.
Paul Valery