If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
ANTONIN ARTAUDThe true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.
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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 abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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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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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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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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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt.
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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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Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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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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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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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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