What do the victims matter if the gesture is beautiful
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"Qu'importent les victimes, si le geste est beau?" ("What do the victims matter, so long as the gesture is beautiful") is a dictum attibruted to Laurent Tailhade, uttered the night before Auguste Vaillant bombed the Chamber of Deputies in 1893.
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- The simplest Surrealist act consists of running down into the street, pistols in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd
- Aestheticization of violence
- Propaganda of the deed
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