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Portrait of Paul Claudel

Paul Claudel

(1868–1955) Playwright France

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Paul Claudel was a playwright from France, best known for L' annonce faite à Marie ; mystère en quatre actes et un prologue.

Quick Facts About Paul Claudel

Born: August 6, 1868
Died: February 23, 1955
Nationality: France
Profession: Playwright
Notable works: L' annonce faite à Marie ; mystère en quatre actes et un prologue
Known for: The Satin Slipper, Division of Midday, The Story of Tobie and Sara
Spouse: Reine Claudel

About Paul Claudel

Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He is most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism, and for institutionalizing his sister.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic honorary doctorate at the Laval University Prix Narcisse Michaut Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour

Quotes by Paul Claudel

How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason…

Alive

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In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the…

Can not

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We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.

Conflict

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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…

Baptized

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You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.

All things

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It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

Diplomats

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Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.

Inspirational

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Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?

Cooking

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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…

Aging

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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…

Credence

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Every birth is a getting to know.

Birth

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Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.

Convince

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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…

Eye

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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…

Everyday

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Now I know that at the heart of the universe is joy.

Heart

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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…

Dignity

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Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass…

Catastrophe

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Intelligence is nothing without delight.

Delight

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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…

Art

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The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.

Animated

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Speak about Christ only when you are asked. But live so that people ask about Christ!

Asks

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Time: all things consume it, love alone makes use of it.

All things

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When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

Earth

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