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Alfred Jarry

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Quotes by Alfred Jarry

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Ah, crap! Isn’t Wrong worth the same as Right?
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Papa Ubu: Yes, gentlemen, but however beautiful it may be, it can’t compare with Poland. Because if there weren’t any Poland, there wouldn’t be any Poles!
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The military hospital is the most cheerful of militaty buildings because there are so few uniforms inside.
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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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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.
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Papa Ubu: Captain Bordure, I’ve decided to make you Duke of Lithuania.
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It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one’s own bedroom.
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You’re looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
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That’s a beautiful speech, but nobody’s listening. Let’s go.
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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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