Paul Claudel's quotes (sethmessenger.fr - Some short news to get away from it all).

#9161
Straight in the eyes, he took his smile and made him him.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9162
The present: that time around us is introducing in eternity.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9163
A contradiction, there is to not noticing.

Paul Claudel
(Conversations dans le Loir-et-Cher)

#9164
Be afraid to blow your nose too hard, for fear of giving up the ghost.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9165
Wife loosens his belt and his tie denoue man.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9166
Between two words, you choose the least.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9167
We judge better men from the bottom up from top to bottom.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9168
Should not that children receive the religion, so that they catch him in their lives, as we catch the measles.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9169
French, all temperament which is not necessary.

Paul Claudel
(Positions et propositions)

#9170
I don't like you, I like better you.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9171
The Moon, an old lady who has no ears.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9172
You think I'm stupid? It's because I'm trying to exchange ideas with you.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9173
In a Word, poetry cannot exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates that of words.

Paul Claudel
(Positions et propositions)

#9174
Who hates being hates his own existence.

Paul Claudel
(Magnificat)

#9175
To have a distinguished conversation to remember don't open your mouth when we have nothing to say.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9176
Armor when we took the habit becomes as comfortable as a robe.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9177
A work that is written with the intention of an audience will be always a missed work.

Paul Claudel
(Accompagnements)

#9178
There are people who manage to hide even their hypocrisy.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9179
Two ways to shine: reject the light or produce it.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9180
-I'll give you all my thought. - No, please!

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9181
I never show anything, I never tell until it's over. It's like a mayonnaise that does not if you look at it.

Paul Claudel
(Mémoires improvisés)

#9182
Many publishers, like skilled designers, are responsible for dressing the book to seduce buyers whose eye is more accessible than intelligence.

Paul Claudel
(Positions et propositions)

#9183
There are only two things to do with a flag: hold it at arms length or tighten it with passion against his heart.

Paul Claudel
(Positions et propositions)

#9184
Don't invite several men of letters both: a hunchback will always prefer the company of a blind man to that of an another hunchback.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9185
Written with boiling ink.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9186
Love humanity, to see her from afar.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9187
The harvest. We mow the Earth like a sheep.

Paul Claudel
(Connaissance de l’Est)

#9188
Clumsy Eros which lack the heart and only reached the stomach...

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9189
What sad fate for a dog that doesn't belong to anyone!

Paul Claudel
(Lettre à Gallimard)

#9190
You who see at least that know at least, you who live at least. You who say that you live, what is you life?

Paul Claudel
(Le père humilié)

#9191
The North American... Flat, flat as a tart plums on which an elephant has set foot.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9192
Death is a rude formality, but all candidates are received.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9193
Living together is a very difficult art to learn.

Paul Claudel
(Conversations dans le Loir-et-Cher)

#9194
Wine is the symbol and the means of social communion: the table between all the guests set the same level and cutting circulating penetrates us towards our neighbours, forgiveness, understanding and sympathy.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9195
I'm in talks with death, I weigh its proposals.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9196
It's only to tell the truth that requires effort, since it is against reality.

Paul Claudel
(Le Soulier de satin)

#9197
The universe is just a total way of not being what is.

Paul Claudel
(Art poétique)

#9198
God made man and Sin it was counterfeit.

Paul Claudel
(Positions et propositions)

#9199
These gaffes that are hosted by one of these silences that could be described as deafening...

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9200
The genius is like a mirror which one side receives the light and the other is all rough and rusty.

Paul Claudel
(Le Livre de Christophe Colomb)

#9201
Knowledge explains the birth, any substance implies its evidence.

Paul Claudel
(Traité de la co-naissance au monde et de soi-même)

#9202
There is nothing in heaven and on earth that love is able to give.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9203
It's war who taught us to love which is not us and count for nothing that we possess.

Paul Claudel
(Conversations dans le Loir-et-Cher)

#9204
It is people who build systems like a man who built a huge Castle, but that lodge themselves in a barn.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9205
The mysteries explained less by themselves only in explaining everything as a lamp is explained less by his hair by his light.

Paul Claudel
(Positions et propositions)

#9206
The fear of the adjective is the beginning of the style.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9207
It is on the arm of the nobility of France that American democracy made its entry in the world.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9208
The individual alone is a poor, a being easily defeated, and he needs a supportive environment to develop its potential. But the company exists for the individual and not the other way around.

Paul Claudel
(Mémoires improvisés)

#9209
I reserve the right to disagree with me firmly.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9210
A great wine is not the work of one man, it is the result of a constant and refined tradition. There are more than a thousand years of history in an old bottle.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9211
Is not the candle which made the flame, it's the flame that made the candle.

Paul Claudel
(Positions et propositions)

#9212
Purgatory: an incubator.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9213
Happiness is not a luxury, it is us against ourselves.

Paul Claudel
(Partage de midi)

#9214
Does not the truth the eye alone, but all this without reservation that is yourself.

Paul Claudel
(Connaissance de l'Est)

#9215
As I digress, my past life is emerging as an island.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9216
My soul has no tolerance of death!

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9217
When I see Christ on the cross, the arms fall me.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9218
Spiritual life. Must close its doors and open windows.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9219
I have a great memory, but I don't remember things as they are.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9220
Everything the heart desires can always be reduced to figure water.

Paul Claudel
(Positions et propositions)

#9221
With a garlic sausage, you feel less alone.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9222
The wings fail us, but we always have enough strength to fall.

Paul Claudel
(Positions et propositions)

#9223
Do not deny relief to the bramble who wants to become pink.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9224
There is a dangerous class, that is that of the intellectuals, that is people who have an instrument for which there is no employment.

Paul Claudel
(Conversations dans le Loir-et-Cher)

#9225
Sole before dying left his children this priceless legacy: to be flat!

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9226
Powerful is suffering when she is also voluntary SIN!

Paul Claudel
(L’annonce faite à Marie)

#9227
Who will get the first prize in a contest of circumstances?

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9228
We talked often of the color and flavor of the words. No never told their blood to the State of tension to mind making them, they are the index and the index of their loading.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9229
Poetry, these are the words with the music inside but that come out.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9230
God did not remove the suffering. He didn't even explain it, but he came to fill it with his presence.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9231
Tis not time lacking, it is we who miss him.

Paul Claudel
(Partage de midi)

#9232
Israel is always the son of the promise, as it is today the eldest son of pain.

Paul Claudel
(Lettre au grand rabbin de France - 24 Décembre 1941)

#9233
The words are just cut out fragments of one together that is earlier.

Paul Claudel
(Positions et propositions)

#9234
The custom of Seppuku, the Japanese kept mania of the toothpicks.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9235
The flower of illusion produces the fruit of reality.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9236
In front of the English kitchen, there is only one word: "be!".

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9237
In Germany, the mediocrities are added together. In France, the superiorities cancel each other out.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9238
When you're in danger of death all weapons are good for self-defense.

Paul Claudel
(Feuilles de saints)

#9239
It is more laborious to lead people by persuasion than by iron.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9240
It's not to be, for a man to not act.

Paul Claudel
(Feuilles de saints)

#9241
All Supermen, we must prefer this rare sight of all: a just man, and just a man.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9242
A question is an answer.

Paul Claudel
(Cinq grandes odes)

#9243
Music is the soul of the geometry.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9244
The actor is an artist and not a critic. Its purpose is not to understand a text, but to live a character.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9245
The puppet is a word that is.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9246
Simply, make visible prison.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9247
Defence to mix things: you don't laboureras with an ox and a donkey.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9248
Eighty years! More eyes, ears more, more teeth; more legs, more breath! And all in all, it's amazing how we can do without.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9249
With the round of a simple Yes, we buy eternal life.

Paul Claudel
(Accompagnements)

#9250
What price is the world with life? And what price life, otherwise give it?

Paul Claudel
(L'annonce faire à Marie)

#9251
The woman is intelligent at the expense of its mystery.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9252
Engineering is a long wait.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9253
Dignity is a word that has no plural.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9254
Many people believe they have the classic taste that have the bourgeois taste.

Paul Claudel
(Positions et propositions)

#9255
There isn't for things and the poems only one way of being new, is to be real and only one way of being young, is to be eternal.

Paul Claudel
(Positions et propositions)

#9256
We're preparing to death. It detaches from the life.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9257
There are no living society that is driven by inequality and injustice.

Paul Claudel
(Conversations dans le Loir-et-Cher)

#9258
Sin not made up, it breaks down.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9259
A street, it's going somewhere. It works on every side of us as a procession.

Paul Claudel
(Conversations dans le Loir-et-Cher)

#9260
The Skeptic is a man who doesn't suspect anything.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9261
The time is the sin of eternity.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9262
Didn't the truth 17 envelopes like onions?

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9263
Our resurrection is not entirely in the future, it is also in us, she starts, she has already begun.

Paul Claudel
(Correspondance avec André Gide)

#9264
Even the intelligence function fully only under the impulse of desire.

Paul Claudel
(Positions et propositions)

#9265
As we age, we lose a lot of faults, they no longer serve us anything.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9266
People are heroes when they cannot do otherwise.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9267
The woman will always be the danger of all paradise.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9268
Tolerance? There are houses for it!

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9269
Two ways to age: the spirit that prevails on the flesh or flesh which prevails over the spirit.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9270
When we gave up the pleasures of life, there is still one to get up from the table after a boring dinner.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9271
It's very curious: they always single giving you advice for raising children.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9272
There are eyes that receive light and there are eyes that give it.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9273
When the man is trying to imagine a paradise on Earth, it immediately makes very decent hell.

Paul Claudel
(Conversations dans le Loir-et-Cher)

#9274
For the rose, someone uses geometry and another job the butterfly.

Paul Claudel
(L'Oiseau noir dans le soleil levant)

#9275
The poems are very much like the guns: get a hole, and you put something around.

Paul Claudel
(L'oiseau noir dans le soleil levant)

#9276
Come on, do you nothing, my God! You're here, and that's enough.

Paul Claudel
(Magnificat)

#9277
That removes the verb of the sentence, it loses its meaning. Which denies unity denies the number that is made. Who no longer believes in God, he no longer believes in anything.

Paul Claudel
(Lettre à Jacques Rivière - 23 mai 1907)

#9278
The man was done either by himself, or for himself, but by God and for God.

Paul Claudel
(Lettre à Jacques Rivière - 4 Août 1907)

#9279
The man was set by God surrounded by nature to complete it and give it to him.

Paul Claudel
(Conversations dans le Loir-et-Cher)

#9280
When I die, you won't hurt me.

Paul Claudel
(Connaissance de l'Est)

#9281
The worst is not always safe.

Paul Claudel
(Le soulier de satin)

#9282
It's nothing hope which is beautiful! It is to know that there are forever!

Paul Claudel
(Le soulier de satin)

#9283
The word is only a noise and the books aren't paper.

Paul Claudel
(Tête d'or)

#9284
We believe it's all over, but then there's always a Robin who starts singing.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9285
Everyone does not to be happy.

Paul Claudel
(L’otage)

#9286
One who loves a lot does not easily forgive.

Paul Claudel
(L’otage)

#9287
Ah, it's a more intoxicating than wine to be a beautiful young woman thing!

Paul Claudel
(L’otage)

#9288
Nothing like to learn to write as a master who can't read.

Paul Claudel
(L’Otage)

#9289
It is good to have in itself something to give.

Paul Claudel
(L’Otage)

#9290
The one who suffers, the consolations of a cheerful comforter are not grand prize, and his evil is not for us this is it for him.

Paul Claudel
(L’annonce faite à Marie)

#9291
There is a sad thing to lose that life, it's the reason to live, sad to lose his property, it's lost its hope.

Paul Claudel
(L’otage)

#9292
Light, poor people, it is more difficult to make gold.

Paul Claudel
(L’annonce faite à Marie)

#9293
The flower is short, but the joy she gave a minuteN' is not those things that have a beginning or end.

Paul Claudel
(L’Annonce faite à Marie)

#9294
Happiness is not the end but the means of life.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9295
Marriage is not the pleasure, it is the sacrifice of the pleasure, it is the study of two souls that forever now will have to settle the other.

Paul Claudel
(Le Père humilié)

#9296
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when there isn't one.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9297
The man who gets angry is always the last to know things.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9298
Good is better than evil because it is more difficult.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9299
The order is the pleasure of the reason, but the disorder is the delight of the imagination.

Paul Claudel
(Le Soulier de satin)

#9300
Time, consumes everything and love alone is used.

Paul Claudel
(Conversations dans le Loir-et-Cher)

#9301
Even for the simple flight of a butterfly all over the sky is necessary.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9302
Whatever the pain of today since it is the beginning of something else!

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9303
The wine is a Professor of taste, it is the liberator of the spirit and the Illuminator of intelligence.

Paul Claudel
(Source inconnue)

#9304
The writers were never made to the Beck and call of the grammarians, but to impose their.

Paul Claudel
(Positions et propositions)

#9305
Eighty years is the age of puberty academic.

Paul Claudel
(Journal)

#9306
What is the purpose of life is to live?

Paul Claudel
(L'annonce faite à Marie)

#9307
The man knows the world not by what he steals but by what he adds.

Paul Claudel
(Art poétique)

#9308
Scripture has this mysterious she speaks.

Paul Claudel
(Connaissance de l'Est)

#9309
The poem is not of these letters I'm planting as nails, but white remaining on paper.

Paul Claudel
(Cinq grandes odes)

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