폴 발레리
인식은 텅 빈 것을 두려워한다.
인간 최대의 불행은 한가지의 생각 혹은 모든 생각을 마음 내키는 대로 숨기거나 봉해 버릴 수 있는 기관, 즉 일종의 눈꺼풀이라든가 재갈을 가지고 있지 않는데 있다.
사랑은 함께 멍청해 지는 것이예요.
Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
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.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
At times I think and at times I am.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
A man who is “of sound mind” is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.
문학의 목적은 인생의 목적과 마찬가지로 不定 부정 이다.