We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
ANTONIN ARTAUD
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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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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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When 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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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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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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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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Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind.
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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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To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
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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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Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
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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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Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.
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