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Quote by Alfred Jarry
It is conventional to call monster any blending of dissonant eleme

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

Other quotes by 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

Category:
Destruction, Destructive
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Alfred Jarry
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Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men. – Alfred Jarry

Category:
strength
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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

Category:
Tradition
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Alfred Jarry
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Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone – the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether its sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever. – Zachary Levi

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Beauty

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. – John Cheever

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Beauty

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them. – Laurette Taylor

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Beauty

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. – George Gissing

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Beauty

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You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. – Stanley Baldwin

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The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark. – Elihu Root

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Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me. – William Cowper

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Ive had great success being a total idiot. – Jerry Lewis

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