Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
Alfred Jarry
Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
Alfred Jarry
God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
Alfred Jarry
It is conventional to call "monster" any blending of dissonant elements. I call "monster" every original inexhaustible beauty.
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
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
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
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
You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
Alfred Jarry
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Type:
Writer
Date of Birth:
1873-09-08
Year of Death:
1907
Nationality:
French |
