Paul Valéry quote: A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, ...

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.

~ Paul Valéry ~

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