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Quote by Alfred Jarry
To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea be

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

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Beauty
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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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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. – Allan Bloom

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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny mans ability to adapt to changing circumstances. – Stephen Bayley

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In America nothing dies easier than tradition. – Russell Baker

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