Jean-Claude Izzo Quotes

• Marseilles isn't a city for tourists. There's nothing to see. Its beauty can't be photographed. It can only be shared. It's a place where you have to take sides, be passionately for or against. Only then can you see what there is to see. And you realize, too late, that you're in the middle of a tragedy. An ancient tragedy in which the hero is death. In Marseilles, even to lose you have to know how to fight.

  Jean-Claude Izzo

  Hero, Fighting, Cities

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• Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words.

  Jean-Claude Izzo

  Pleasure

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• Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.

  Jean-Claude Izzo

  Forever, Gestures, Lasts

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• I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry

  Jean-Claude Izzo

  Half, Other Half, Cry

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• The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.

  Jean-Claude Izzo

  Despair, Answers, Bears

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• I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the winner.

  Jean-Claude Izzo

  Feet, Lasts, Survivor

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