Max Jacob quotes
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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.”
-- Max Jacob
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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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“Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.”
Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.
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“He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.”
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