If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI myself am an absolute abyss.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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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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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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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 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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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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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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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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This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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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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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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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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