Alfred Jarry famous quotes

03-24-2025

Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.
-- Alfred Jarry

#Communication #Talking #Mind
God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
-- Alfred Jarry

#God #Zero #Infinity
I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.
-- Alfred Jarry

#Dying #Last Words #Please
Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.
-- Alfred Jarry

#Light #Dawn #World
It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.
-- Alfred Jarry

#Fighting #Numbers #Bears
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

#Mean #Ideas #Mad
The applause of silence. is the only kind that counts.
-- Alfred Jarry

#Silence #Kind #Applause
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
-- Alfred Jarry

#Beauty #Monsters #Elements
God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity.
-- Alfred Jarry

#Zero #Distance #Infinity
La mort n'est que pour les meÂ diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.
-- Alfred Jarry

#Mediocre
Dieu est le point tangent de zeÂ ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite.
-- Alfred Jarry

#Zero #Infinite
Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.
-- Alfred Jarry

#Memories #Becoming #Duration
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

#Ruins #Use #Way
It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom
-- Alfred Jarry

#Home #Fire #Joy
The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.
-- Alfred Jarry

#Art #Crocodiles #Art Is
You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
-- Alfred Jarry

#Tonight #Ugly #Company
Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
-- Alfred Jarry

#Real #Men #Discipline
Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.
-- Alfred Jarry

#Laughter #Discovery #Born
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
-- Alfred Jarry

#Thinking #Suffering #Ovation
The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
-- Alfred Jarry

#Character #Passion #New Life
The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
-- Alfred Jarry

#Unique #Artist #Rehearsal
Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.
-- Alfred Jarry

#Water #Liquid #Poison

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