God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness sho… - Paul Valéry

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

Paul Valéry

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Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry (30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945) was a French author and Symbolist poet. His interests were sufficiently broad that he can be classified as a polymath. In addition to his fiction (poetry, drama, and dialogues), he also wrote many essays and aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events.

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Alternative Names: Paul Ambroise Valery • Paul-Ambroise Valéry • Paul Valery • Paul-Ambroise Valery • Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry • Paul Ambroise Valéry • Doris

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

What is there more mysterious than clarity?… What more capricious than the way in which light and shade are distributed over hours and over men?

The deeper education consists in unlearning one's first education.

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

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