Paul Valery

Puzzles

• The trouble with our times is that the ___ is not what it used to be.
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• Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own ___.
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• The best way to make your dreams come true is to ___.
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• Our most important thoughts are those that ___ our emotions.
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• Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual ___.
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• To enter into your own ___ you need to be armed to the teeth.
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• In this world there is always ___ for those who are afraid of it.
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• Love is being ___ together.
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• Those who cannot ___ the thought, instead ___ the thinker.
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• A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a ___.
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• ___ people have few ideas. People with ideas are never ___.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Paul Valery?

  • → It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
  • → Ignorance never settles a question.
  • → God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
  • → Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Paul Valery.

  • → A work of art is never finished, only abandoned.
  • → The universe is not only stranger than we imagine; it is stranger than we can imagine.
  • → I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
  • → If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Paul Valery.

  • → I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
  • → If you haven’t got it, you can’t show it. If you have got it, you can’t hide it.
  • → It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
  • → A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Paul Valery. Which one?

  • → Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.
  • → Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
  • → Power without abuse loses its charm.
  • → Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
  
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