The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
Paul ValeryBooks have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Paul ValeryPolitics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Paul ValeryLatent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being helpless prey to impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, drops him, promises and betrays, and -crowning injury- inflicts on him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.
Paul Valery