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.
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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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
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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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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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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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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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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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I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.
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I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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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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Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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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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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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