Hugo Ball Quotes

• What is generally termed reality is, to be precise, a frothy nothing.

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  Reality, Precise

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• I don't want words that other people have invented. All the words are other people's inventions. I want my own stuff, my own rhythm, and vowels and consonants too, matching the rhythm and all my own.

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  People, Stuff, Matching

  Hugo Ball (1974). “Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary”, p.221, Univ of California Press

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• Cada cosa tiene su palabra, pero la palabra se ha convertido en una cosa por sí misma. ¿Por qué no puedo encontrarla? ¿Por qué un árbol no puede llamarse Pluplusch, y Pluplubasch cuando ha llovido? La palabra, la palabra, la palabra fuera de su dominio, de su acartonamiento, de esta risible impotencia, de su estupenda petulancia, fuera de todo el parloteo de su autoevidente limitación. La palabra, señores, es un asunto público de primera importancia.

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  Rain, Self, Tree

  Hugo Ball (1974). “Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary”, p.221, Univ of California Press

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• No such thing as humanity without flaws.

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  Humanity, Flaws

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• We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

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  Beautiful, Heart, Age

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• It's inspiration that counts, not the drill.

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  Inspiration, Drills

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• The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

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  Real, Views, Long

  Hugo Ball (1974). “Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary”, p.104, Univ of California Press

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• Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

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  Ethics, Morality, Ethical

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