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Quotes from Mauvaises Pensées et Autres — Paul Valéry

1871–1945 France

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God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

Mauvaises Pensées et Autres (1941)

An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.

Mauvaises Pensées et Autres (1941)

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

Mauvaises Pensées et Autres (1941)

Everything simple is false. Everything complex is unusable.

Mauvaises Pensées et Autres (1941)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Paul Valéry (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.