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.
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
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
When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell. - Paul Claudel
When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.
Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence. - Paul Claudel
Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.
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
In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the words.
Now I know that at the heart of the universe is joy. - Paul Claudel
Now I know that at the heart of the universe is joy.
We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict. - Paul Claudel
We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.
Speak about Christ only when you are asked. But live so that people ask about Christ! - Paul Claudel
Speak about Christ only when you are asked. But live so that people ask about Christ!
Intelligence is nothing without delight. - Paul Claudel
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
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
Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.
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