Max Jacob Quotes

#1. The raven of Edgar Allan Poe has a halo that he extinguishes from time to time

("Spanish Generosity")

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#2. Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

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#3. 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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#4. The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

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#5. Her white arms became my entire horizon

("The Rooster And The Pearl")

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#6. We don't know very well those we love But I understand them fairly well Being all these people myself I who am however but a baboon.

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#7. What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

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#8. Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.

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#9. 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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