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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

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

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

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strength
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Alfred Jarry
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Other Quotes from
Beauty
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Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Beauty

Ive been on the cover of Time magazine three times, not for my beauty but because what I was doing was newsworthy around the world. Ive worked with teams all my life, but Ive been nice and Ive been kind. – Cheryl Tiegs

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Beauty

My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children theyre beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends. – Emily Mortimer

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Beauty

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. – Henry Rollins

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Beauty

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There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. – Martin Luther

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The pulse of destiny still shook the foundations of the world. The will that had willed this thing to happen had now another will to deal with—nor should the stream of Fate swallow up his heart without a cry. – Frederic Jesup Stimson, In Cure of Her Soul, 1906, wording slightly altered

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