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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

Other quotes by Alfred Jarry

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

Category:
Beauty
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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

Category:
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

Category:
Destruction, Destructive
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Alfred Jarry
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Other Quotes from
Tradition
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I felt theres a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. Id be a jerk not to take advantage of it. – Herman Wouk

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Tradition

It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Category:
Tradition

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

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Tradition

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Tradition

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People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost. – Stephen Breyer

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respect

The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other – Diogenes Laertius

Category:
Trade (import / export)

Hatred is blind, as well as love. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Love

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. – Author Unknown

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Hang in There