Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
ANTONIN ARTAUDWhen we speak the word ‘life,’ it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
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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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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be content, ask him only to be calm, to believe that he has found his place. But only the madman is really calm.
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When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are on their balconies. I participate in planetary gravitation in the fissures of my mind.
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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this–I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.
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All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.
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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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Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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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.
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I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt.
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I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
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