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> [He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own life instead of living it. How innocuous it all was, and empty, empty, empty! This chasing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jens-peter-jacobsen/he-was-weary-of-himself-of-cold-ideas-and-brain-dreams-life-a-poem/)

[Jens Peter Jacobsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jens-peter-jacobsen/)

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## More by Jens Peter Jacobsen

> [Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering out our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jens-peter-jacobsen/haven-t-you-noticed-that-we-women-daydream-infinitely-less-than-you/)

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> [“...he looked so strange and absentminded; quite obviously he had just been reading a book, one could tell that from the expression in his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jens-peter-jacobsen/he-looked-so-strange-and-absentminded-quite-obviously-he-had-just/)

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> [Love is like a diamond; for as a diamond is beautiful to look upon, so is love fair, but as the diamond is poison…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jens-peter-jacobsen/love-is-like-a-diamond-for-as-a-diamond-is-beautiful-to-look-upon-so/)

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> [“Know ye not that there is here in this world a secret confraternity, which one might call the Company of Melancholiacs? That people there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jens-peter-jacobsen/know-ye-not-that-there-is-here-in-this-world-a-secret-confraternity/)

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> [He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jens-peter-jacobsen/he-was-weary-of-himself-of-cold-ideas-and-brain-dreams-life-a-poem/)

[Jens Peter Jacobsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jens-peter-jacobsen/)

> [“And it all came to pass, all that she had hoped, but it did not fill her with rapture nor carry her away with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jens-peter-jacobsen/and-it-all-came-to-pass-all-that-she-had-hoped-but-it-did-not-fill/)

[Jens Peter Jacobsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jens-peter-jacobsen/)

> [“For he has faith enough, he feels, if he were really to delve into himself, faith enough to move mountains, but he cannot manage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jens-peter-jacobsen/for-he-has-faith-enough-he-feels-if-he-were-really-to-delve-into/)

[Jens Peter Jacobsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jens-peter-jacobsen/)

> [“Of what are you thinking now?" she asked. "I am thinking of myself." "That's just what I am doing." "Are you also thinking of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jens-peter-jacobsen/of-what-are-you-thinking-now-she-asked-i-am-thinking-of-myself-that-s/)

[Jens Peter Jacobsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jens-peter-jacobsen/)

> [Break the ice, or draw that which lives in the dimness out into the full light of speech - what happens is the same:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jens-peter-jacobsen/break-the-ice-or-draw-that-which-lives-in-the-dimness-out-into-the/)

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> [“There was no style in nature.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jens-peter-jacobsen/there-was-no-style-in-nature/)

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> [For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jens-peter-jacobsen/for-the-first-time-his-mind-grasped-the-fact-that-when-life-has/)

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