Best Quotes by Alfred Jarry (Top 10)
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God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
Alfred Jarry
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Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.
Alfred Jarry
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It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom
Alfred Jarry
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It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
Alfred Jarry
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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.
Alfred Jarry
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Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
Alfred Jarry
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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.
Alfred Jarry
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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.
Alfred Jarry
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The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.
Alfred Jarry
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To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.
Alfred Jarry