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The military hospital is the most cheerful of militaty buildings because there are so few uniforms inside.
Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.
God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
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
Ah, crap! Isn't Wrong worth the same as Right?
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.
Papa Ubu: Captain Bordure, I've decided to make you Duke of Lithuania.
And he had to have freedom-not even that, just to read and sleep in peace, without a uniform-sooner still.
I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity.
The work of art is a stuffed crocodile.
The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.
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.
To be weird! That is my goal!
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. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.
JARRY: (To audience) As to the action which is about to begin, it takes place in Poland - that is to say, nowhere.
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.
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!
