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The fixation of the theater in one language–written words, music, lights, noises–betokens its imminent ruin.

Antonin Artaud

There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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Asylum Death Insane
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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Creation Diagram Mindset Myself Soul
So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses.
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Asylum Greatness Protect Protection Refusal Society
The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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Guide Instint Practice
I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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Death Hold Live Myself Terror
I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
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Moments Myself Unique Work
We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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Human Literature Ourselves
If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
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Destroy Myself Suicide Togetherness
Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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Difference Feeling Rich Sensuality Spiritual
By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will … now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality.
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Design Direction Introduction Myself Nature Reality Suicide Tendency
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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Absence Feeling Myself Present Time Work
We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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Feeling Heart Lying Right
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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Beggar Language Talk True
I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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Art Existence Life Myself Separate Work
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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Angel Human Live Need Pain Strength Swallow Understand
I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
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Born Earth Food Myself People Preference

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