Paul Claudel quotes

" A cocktail is to a glass of wine as rape is to love " # Quotations # Love # Alcohol and Alcoholism

" Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it. " # Obstacles

" 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 " # Envy # Love # Reason

" When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity this is the only way to make it palatable. " # Sincerity # Truth # Causes

" Intelligence is nothing without delight. " # Intelligence and Intellectuals

" Il y a une chose plus triste à perdre que la vie, c’est la raison de vivre, Plus triste que de perdre ses biens, c’est de perdre son espérance. " # Identity # Freedom # Death and Dying

" Il n'y a pour les choses et pour les poèmes qu'une seule manière d'être nouveaux, c'est d'être vrais et qu'une seule manière d'être jeunes, c'est d'être éternels. " # Love # Poetry and Poets # Happiness

" Si l'ordre est le plaisir de la raison, le désordre est le délice de l'imagination. " # Education

" In the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of champagne. " # Alcohol and Alcoholism # Crisis # Friends and Friendship

" You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable. " # Quotations