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Paul Claudel Quotes

1868–1955 France

Paul Claudel (6 August 1868 – 23 February 1955) was a French poet, playwright and diplomat. As a writer he is best remembered for his verse dramas, and as a public servant for his five years as ambassador to the United States.

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Order is the pleasure of the reason; but disorder is the delight of the imagination.

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

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.

Woman is the promise that cannot be kept; but it is precisely in this that my mercy consists.

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

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.

In the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of champagne.

For things and for poems, there is but one way of being new, and that is to be true; there is only one way of being young, and that is to be eternal.

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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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Paul Claudel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.