The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Love is being stupid together.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
Politeness is organized indifference.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
Power without abuse loses its charm.
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
At times I think and at times I am.
We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they deprive him of ideas.
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.
History is the science of things which are not repeated.
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.
