Paul Claudel Quotes
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Time: all things consume it, love alone makes use of it.
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Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.
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Order is the pleasure of the reason; but disorder is the delight of the imagination.
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There is something sadder to lose than life – the reason for living; Sadder than to lose one's possessions is to lose one's hope.
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Art imitates nature not in its effects as such, but in its causes, in its ‘manner,’ in its process, which are nothing but a participation in and a derivation of actual objects, of the Art of God himself.
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Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?
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Now I know that at the heart of the universe is joy.
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It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.
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The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.
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You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.
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Il n'y a pour les choses et pour les poèmes qu'une seule manière d'être nouveaux, c'est d'être vrais et qu'une seule manière d'être jeunes, c'est d'être éternels.
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Speak about Christ only when you are asked. But live so that people ask about Christ!
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The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips.
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In the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of champagne.
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All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.
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Open your eyes! The world is still intact; it is as pristine as it was on the first day, as fresh as milk!
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Intelligence is nothing without delight.
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While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do all one can to give credence to these lies.
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When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.
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Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.
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Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.
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Every birth is a getting to know.
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We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.
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The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no magic. There are your very own phrases.