{"author":"Paul Valery","author_id":"Paul+Valery","total_quotes":22,"quotes":[{"text":"Peace is a virtual  mute  sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds.","author":"Paul Valery","tags":["peace"],"id":34318,"author_id":"Paul+Valery"},{"text":"A poem is never finished, only abandoned.","author":"Paul Valery","tags":["never","abandoned","finished "],"id":93873,"author_id":"Paul+Valery"},{"text":"God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.","author":"Paul Valery","tags":["god","man","solitude "],"id":99732,"author_id":"Paul+Valery"},{"text":"An artist never really finishes his work  he merely abandons it.","author":"Paul Valery","tags":["art","artist"],"id":111970,"author_id":"Paul+Valery"},{"text":"Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.","author":"Paul Valery","tags":["successful","literature","rest "],"id":112285,"author_id":"Paul+Valery"},{"text":"War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.","author":"Paul Valery","tags":["people","know","profit "],"id":115605,"author_id":"Paul+Valery"},{"text":"To penetrate one's being  one must go armed to the teeth.","author":"Paul Valery","tags":["self","self","knowledge"],"id":139046,"author_id":"Paul+Valery"},{"text":"A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.","author":"Paul Valery","tags":["capitalism"],"id":139924,"author_id":"Paul+Valery"},{"text":"Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This ... Is a precious gift.","author":"Paul Valery","tags":["ignorance"],"id":151100,"author_id":"Paul+Valery"},{"text":"The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.","author":"Paul Valery","tags":["everything","like","used "],"id":177838,"author_id":"Paul+Valery"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}