Paul Claudel Quotes

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

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  Numbers, People, Convince

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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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  Jesus, Suffering, Remove

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

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  People, Speak, Christ

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

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  Use, All Things, Alone In Love

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• Intelligence is nothing without delight.

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  Delight

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• Señores, en el poco tiempo que nos queda entre la crisis y la catástrofe, bien podemos beber una copa de champán.

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  Wine, Glasses, Champagne Drinking

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• Cuando el hombre intenta imaginar el Paraíso en la tierra, el resultado inmediato es un Infierno muy respetable.

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  Men, Paradise On Earth, Imagination

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

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  Heart, Joy, Knows

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

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  Conflicto

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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 words.

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  Soul, Movement, Emotion

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

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  Thanks, Poet, All Things

  Recalled on his death, 23 Feb 1955.

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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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  Expression, Everything Happens For A Reason, Dignity

  "Relating: An Astrological Guide to Living with Others on a Small Planet". Book by Liz Greene, p. 15, 1977.

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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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  Eye, Years, Wind

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

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  Long, Noses, Politics

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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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  Art, Causes, Process

  "The man who got it right". The New York Review of Books, Volume 60, Number 13, p. 72, August 15, 2013.

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• Las únicas sociedades vivas son las que están animadas por la desigualdad y la injusticia.

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  Injustice, Animated, Inequality

  "Conversations dans le Loir-et-Cher". Book by Paul Claudel, p. 22; translation from The Independent, February 6, 2001, 1984.

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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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  Eye, World, Firsts

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• Every birth is a getting to know.

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  Birth, Knows

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

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  Food, Thinking, Doctors

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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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  Christian, Children, Wine

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• 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 for envying the gods

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  Feet, Alive, Breathe

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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.

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  Magic, Everyday, Phrases

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• Mientras trabajaba en Madurez, ... M. Rodin es muy consciente de que la gente ha imaginado que él hizo mi escultura por qué entonces hacer todo lo posible para dar crédito a estas mentiras.

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  Lying, Maturity, People

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