Quote by Paul Valery
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. – Paul Valery

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In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. – Paul Valery

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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. – Paul Valery

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A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone. – Graham Coxon

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Alone Im nothing. – Robert Plant

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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. – Henry Adams

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