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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.

Antonin Artaud

And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.
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Artistic Flame Hell Ourselves Time Victim
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
I myself am an absolute abyss.
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Absolute Instagram Captions Myself Space
The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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Guide Instint Practice
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
Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
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Enough Life Myself Stage Tragedy
I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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Art Existence Life Myself Separate Work
I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten.
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Essential Forget Language Myself Mysterious Possible Talk
Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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Chaos Myself Sarcasm Sink
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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Beggar Language Talk True
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
The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.
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Instrument Live Shadow Theatre True Way
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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Battle Beginning Eyes Impossible Ourselves Realize Stage Symbol Theatre
I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.
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Act Affirmation Live Myself Reason Risk See Truth
You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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Man Necessary Quite Young
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
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Escape Forever Hell Man World

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.

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