Life consists of burning up questions.
ANTONIN ARTAUD
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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Life consists of burning up questions.
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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be content, ask him only to be calm, to believe that he has found his place. But only the madman is really calm.
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Don’t tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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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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Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
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How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.
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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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When we speak the word ‘life,’ it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
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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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I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.
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A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.
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