We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
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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.Alfred Jarry
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.
Alfred Jarry
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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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
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You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company
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Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
Alfred Jarry
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