I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI myself am an absolute abyss.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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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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Don’t tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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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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Those who live, live off the dead.
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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
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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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Life consists of burning up questions.
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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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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 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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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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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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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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