46 Quotes by Alfred Jarry

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

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

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.

God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity.

The applause of silence. is the only kind that counts.

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

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

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

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