Quotes by Jacques Vaché

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Popular Quotes

“The beautiful must be incongruous.”

“Hunger justifies the middle classes.”

“Thought involves a little charlatanism.”

“The present is always the best, even when its rough.”

“For us life is a fact, no less, and, above all, no more.”

“The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.”

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“Well then – I see two ways of letting things take their course – Create one’s own sensations with the help of a flamboyant collision of rare words – not often, mind you – or else neatly draw the an...”
— Jacques Vaché
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“You know the horrible life of the alarm clock – it’s a monster that has always appalled me because of the number of things its eyes project, and the way that good fellow stares at me when I enter a...”
— Jacques Vaché
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“The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.”
— Julien Torma, 4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, and Jacques Vaché
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“It’s not the light that’s attracting me, but the darkness that’s driving me on.”
— Julien Torma, 4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, and Jacques Vaché
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“The beautiful must be incongruous.”
— Julien Torma, 4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, and Jacques Vaché
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“Thought involves a little charlatanism.”
— Julien Torma, 4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, and Jacques Vaché
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“Hunger justifies the middle classes.”
— Julien Torma, 4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, and Jacques Vaché
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“For us life is a fact, no less, and, above all, no more.”
— Julien Torma, 4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, and Jacques Vaché
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“The present is always the best, even when its rough.”
— Julien Torma, 4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, and Jacques Vaché
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“My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.”
— Julien Torma, 4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, and Jacques Vaché
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