another thing from the internet

On wood s lot today I saw first this picture of Paul Valéry:



and I thought, wow, look at how elegant he is, with that hand. And then I read the quote next to it, "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them," and thought, oh, ha. Hmm.

But then, at the bottom of the entry was a bonus Valéry quote:




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





Fuck, Valéry, who were you? That's beautiful.