Beauty Quote by Alfred Jarry

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

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To be weird! That is my goal!

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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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God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity.

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

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

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“Writing a part with the talents of a particular actor in mind is the method most likely to result in ephemeral plays: for, once…

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“The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and…

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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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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

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“do not misunderstand person by beauty You really do not know its real or Mask on dirty thoughts”

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Call her beautiful a million times and she won't believe you. Call her ugly once, and she will never forget it.

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