There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
ANTONIN ARTAUDLife consists of burning up questions.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind.
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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 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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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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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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Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.
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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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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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