This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.
ANTONIN ARTAUDLife consists of burning up questions.
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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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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
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In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.
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And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.
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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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The fixation of the theater in one language–written words, music, lights, noises–betokens its imminent ruin.
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Life consists of burning up questions.
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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.
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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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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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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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I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
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