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

Categorized in : Numbers Fighting Psychology

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Alfred Jarry

zero humorous god

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

Alfred Jarry

communication mind talking

I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.

Alfred Jarry

last-words please dying

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

passion theatre character

To be weird! That is my goal!

Alfred Jarry

goal

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

Alfred Jarry

crocodiles art-is art

It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom

Alfred Jarry

fire home joy

God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity.

Alfred Jarry

distance zero infinity

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

Alfred Jarry

elements monsters beauty

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

Alfred Jarry

born laughter discovery

Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.

Alfred Jarry

light dawn world

The applause of silence.

Alfred Jarry

applause silence kind

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

theatre unique artist

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

cooking food water

Duration is the transformation of a succession into a reversion. In other words: THE BECOMING OF A MEMORY.

Alfred Jarry

duration becoming memories

You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?

Alfred Jarry

ugly company tonight

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

mad mean ideas

Dieu est le point tangent de ze ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite.

Alfred Jarry

infinite zero

La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre.

Alfred Jarry

mediocre

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

Alfred Jarry

discipline real men