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Paul Valéry

French poet and literature critic; b. 1871; d. 1945

Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist

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

Paul Valéry, in Art and Literature

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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Paul Valéry, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics