46 Quotes by Alfred Jarry

The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.

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

...and he had to have freedom-not even that, just to read and sleep in peace, without a uniform-sooner still.

Maintenant que la glace est rompue, causons." (Now the ice is broken, let's talk.) -After shooting into a mirror

Ah, crap! Isn't Wrong worth the same as Right?

Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.

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.

...there are only hallucinations, or perceptions, and that there are neither nights nor days...and that life is continuous; yet that one would never be aware of its continuity, nor even that life exists without these pendulum movements; and life is primarily verified by the beating of the heart

Pataphysics will be, above all, the science of the particular, despite the common opinion that the only science is that of the general. Pataphysics will examine the laws governing exceptions, and will explain the universe supplementary to this one; or, less ambitiously, will describe a universe which can be - and perhaps should be - envisaged in the place of the traditional one.