Max Jacob famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.
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The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.
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Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake. Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end.
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What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.
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Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad.
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Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.
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If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
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The pleasure and the love of God for His creatures constitute the original state. His pleasure and love are the means by which He has brought His creatures into existence and are the cause of that bringing into existence. He who knows that he possesses neither being nor act rediscovers himself in that original state of pleasure and divine love.
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We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
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God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
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I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.
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If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.
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Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.
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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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