It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
ANTONIN ARTAUDDestroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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Life consists of burning up questions.
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[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.
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Don’t tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols, for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and when the poetry that occurs on the stage sustains and superheats the realized symbols.
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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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The fixation of the theater in one language–written words, music, lights, noises–betokens its imminent ruin.
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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses.
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To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
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I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.
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I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
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Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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