Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)

• A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others. 

• God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. 

• History is the science of things which are not repeated. 

• In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. 

• That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false. 

• The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. 

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

• 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.

• An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

• At times I think and at times I am.