There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
ANTONIN ARTAUDLike all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.
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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
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If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.
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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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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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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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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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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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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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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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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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