"To launch a manifesto, you must want: A, B, C, hurl invectives against 1, 2, 3, get excited and sharpen your wings to conquer and spread great and small a, b, c, sign, shout, curse, imprint on your prose the accent of absolute, undeniable obviousness, demonstrate your non plus ultra and assert that novelty resembles life as much as the latest appearance of a cocotte demonstrates the essence of God. I write a manifesto and want nothing, yet I say certain things, and I am fundamentally against manifestos, just as I am against principles (measuring sticks for the moral value of any phrase). I write this manifesto to prove that contradictory actions can be taken simultaneously, in a single refreshing breath; I am against action, in favor of continuous contradiction and also affirmation, I am neither for nor against and I give no explanations because I detest common sense. Dada means nothing" (Tristan Tzara, Dada Manifesto)