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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.

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  Alfred Jarry
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Alfred Jarry (French: [al.fʁɛd ʒa.ʁi]; 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907) was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896),[1] a pataphysical work which depicts the bourgeoisie as the super-mediocre. He coined the term and philosophical concept of pataphysics, which uses absurd irony to portray symbolic truths (and playfully vice versa).[2]

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Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.

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

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 Tags: Beauty Monster Original Call Every
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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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 Tags: Life Character Conflict New Life New
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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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 Tags: Doing Buildings I Can Way See Up
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Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

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 Tags: Music Think You Audience Applause
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We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

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