Alfred Jarry Quotes
11 Alfred Jarry quotes:
"It is conventional to call "monster" any blending of dissonant elements. I call "monster" every original inexhaustible beauty."
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"Blind and unwavering indiscipline at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men."
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"God is the tangential point between zero and infinity."
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"Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations."
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Applause Quotes
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"We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts."
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"Our lives are without reason, nothing outside the individuality."
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"It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are -- and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence."
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"It is conventional to call ''monster'' any blending of dissonant elements. I call ''monster'' every original inexhaustible beauty."
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"We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings."
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"The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character."
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"Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men."
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