That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

—Paul Valéry

Love is being stupid together.

—Paul Valéry

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

—Paul Valéry

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

—Paul Valéry

Men differ by what they show, and have in common what they hide.

—Paul Valéry

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

—Lillian Hellman

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

—A.R. Ammons

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.

—William James

People always put their own spin on things, remember what they want to remember, and somewhere in the middle of it all is the truth—the real version.

—Jessi Kirby in Golden