Paul Valéry
French poet and literature critic; b. 1871; d. 1945
Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist
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tiny.ag/9dyyuj3l · submitted 1997
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
tiny.ag/weoyuknk · submitted 1997
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
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