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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

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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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

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Tradition
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Other Quotes from
Beauty
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All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side. – Marguerite Young

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Beauty

Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance. – Max Bill

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Beauty

Sometimes I think I might not have written The Age of Miracles if I hadnt grown up in California, if I hadnt been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial. – Karen Thompson Walker

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Beauty

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks. – Richard Le Gallienne

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Beauty

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I dont have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed. – Sargent Shriver

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Peace

If you look – look at – I mean, look at whats going on with your gasoline prices. Theyre going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we dont have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, Fellas, its time. Its over. Youre not going to do it anymore. – Donald Trump

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Time

The directors job is full of all sorts of annoyances and details – like how many cars are on the street. Ugh. I dont want it. I like my gig. And I feel that for the next 30 years or so I can keep learning more about it. – Tyne Daly

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Learning

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies. – Dana Spiotta

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Technology