The actor is an athlete of the heart.
ANTONIN ARTAUDThe 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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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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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
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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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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.
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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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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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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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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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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
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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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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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