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.
ANTONIN ARTAUDAll true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
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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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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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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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Life consists of burning up questions.
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.
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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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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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