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I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.

Antonin Artaud

The fixation of the theater in one language–written words, music, lights, noises–betokens its imminent ruin.
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Language Noise Ruin Theatre Writing
If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
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Destroy Myself Suicide Togetherness
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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Bone Culture Fatigue Price Yourself
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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Drive Experience Kind Liberty Potential Reality Revolution Shake
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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Hands Life Man Myself Virtue
Those who live, live off the dead.
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Death Live One Liner
I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
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Born Earth Food Myself People Preference
I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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Actor Burning Call Flame Laughter Myself
There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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Asylum Death Insane
I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
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Moments Myself Unique Work
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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Beggar Language Talk True
The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it.
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Extinct Mindset Slow University Way Wrap
The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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Actor Athlete Heart One Liner
The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.
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Art Ideas Mistake Ourselves Poetry Power
I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.
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Creation Diagram Mindset Myself Soul
Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
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Freedom Moments Myself Refusal

I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.

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