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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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Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men. – 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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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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