Alfred Jarry Quotes

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

Put, Fine, Shall

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
Alfred Jarry

Music, Might, Force

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
Alfred Jarry

Men, Strength, Real

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

God, Between, Point

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

Beauty, Call, Original

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

Silence, Counts, Applause

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

Life, Character, Enough

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: September 8, 1873

Died: November 1, 1907

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