[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.
ANTONIN ARTAUDWhen 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.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this–I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.
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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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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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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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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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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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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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Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.
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The 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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