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Paul Claudel
Geburtstag: 6. August 1868
Todesdatum: 23. Februar 1955
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Paul Claudel war ein französischer Schriftsteller, Dichter und Diplomat.
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„Doktor, denken Sie, dass es die Wurst war?“
— Paul Claudel
Letzte Worte zu seinem Arzt, 23. Februar 1955
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„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.“
— Paul Claudel
L'otage (Paris: Édition de la Nouvelle revue française, 1911) p. 162; Pierre Chavannes (trans.) The Hostage (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1917) p. 130.
„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.“
— Paul Claudel
Positions et propositions (Paris: Gallimard, 1928) p. 16; John O'Connor (trans.) Ways and Crossways (London: Sheed & Ward, 1935) p. 49.
„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
as quoted in "The man who got it right," The New York Review of Books, Volume 60, Number 13, August 15, 2013, p. 72
„Order is the pleasure of the reason; but disorder is the delight of the imagination.“
— Paul Claudel
Le soulier de satin: ou, Le pire n'est pas toujours sûr (Paris: Gallimard, [1929] 1936) vol. 1, p. 12; John O'Connor (trans.) The Satin Slipper (London: Sheed & Ward, 1931) p. xxiii.
„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
Quoted by Claud Cockburn, In Time of Trouble (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956) p. 264.
Remark to a party of American officials invited to the French Embassy, as the Hoover Moratorium was being agreed in 1931.
