Alfred Jarry
Writer
1873-09-08 – 1907-11-01
Alfred Jarry was a French symbolist writer and playwright best known for Ubu Roi, a major precursor to modern absurdist theatre. He also originated the concept of "pataphysics, influencing later avant-garde movements. He was born on September 8, 1873, and died on November 1, 1907.
Quotes by Alfred Jarry
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The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.
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One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.
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One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.
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The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.
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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.
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Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
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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.
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God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
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