Paul Valéry Quote

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.


'Recollection, Collected Works, vol. 1 (1972), tr. David Paul.


A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is...

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is...

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is...

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is...