Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne. Paul Claudel More Quotes by Paul Claudel More Quotes From Paul Claudel Speak about Christ only when you are asked. But live so that people ask about Christ! Paul Claudel speak people christ Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence. Paul Claudel remove suffering jesus Intelligence is nothing without delight. Paul Claudel delight Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces. Paul Claudel convince numbers people Time: all things consume it, love alone makes use of it. Paul Claudel alone-in-love use all-things When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell. Paul Claudel paradise-on-earth imagination men We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict. Paul Claudel conflict Now I know that at the heart of the universe is joy. Paul Claudel knows heart joy 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. Paul Claudel eye wind years 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. Paul Claudel everything-happens-for-a-reason dignity expression Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage? Paul Claudel doctors food thinking In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words. Paul Claudel movement emotion soul 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. Paul Claudel wine christian children 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. Paul Claudel maturity lying people You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable. Paul Claudel thanks poet all-things Every birth is a getting to know. Paul Claudel birth knows Open your eyes! The world is still intact; it is as pristine as it was on the first day, as fresh as milk! Paul Claudel eye world firsts The only living socities are those which are animated by inequality and injustice. Paul Claudel inequality injustice animated 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 Paul Claudel breathe alive feet 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. Paul Claudel causes process art
