Alfred Jarry Quotes

You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company? - Alfred Jarry

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. - Alfred Jarry

We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts. - Alfred Jarry

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

The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots. - Alfred Jarry

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

Our lives are without reason, nothing outside the individuality. - Alfred Jarry

It is conventional to call monster any blending of dissonant elements. I call monster every original inexhaustible beauty. - Alfred Jarry

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. - Alfred Jarry

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