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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

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Destruction, Destructive
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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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Beauty
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Beauty is truth, truth beauty, – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. – John Keats

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Beauty

Beauty is a fragile gift. – Ovid

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Beauty

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. – Clifford Geertz

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Beauty

I always say beauty is only sin deep. – Hector Hugh Munro

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Beauty

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If you bring that sentence in for a fitting, I can have it shortened by Wednesday. – M*A*S*H, Hawkeye, “The Gun”

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Skipping: the ultimate display of nonconformity. – Jessi Lane Adams

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Skipping

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. – Henry Fielding

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What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You cant work out another route. Youve just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me. – Haile Gebrselassie

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Hope