Quote by Paul Valery
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves w

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

Other quotes by Paul Valery

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

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Poetry
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The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. – Paul Valery

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History
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Art
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Contrary to popular opinion, things dont go stale particularly fast in the art world. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content. – Knut Hamsun

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Art

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You dont want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldnt have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social yak yaks. – Temple Grandin

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Art

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. – Charles Baudelaire

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Art

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Pearls mean tears. – Doris Lessing

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Im torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble – myself included – as fathers get older. – Eric McCormack

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