Paul Claudel Quotes

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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 of Champagne.
• 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…
• Speak about Christ only when you are asked. But live so that people ask about Christ!
• Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces.
• Intelligence is nothing without delight.
• 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…
• Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.
• How amazing it is to be alive Anyone who lives and breathes and puts both feet on the ground, What possible reason could he have…
• While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do all…
• 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…
• You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.
• When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.
• 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…
• It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

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