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We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Paul Claudel
Born: August 6, 1868
Died: February 23, 1955 (aged 86)
Bio: Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptress Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism.
Known for:
- I Believe in God
- Knowing the East
- Tête d'or (1919)
- Le Pain dur (1900)
- L'Otage (1911)
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