Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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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.
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Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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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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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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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
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I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
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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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Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
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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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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
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Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.
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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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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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