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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.

Antonin Artaud

You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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Man Necessary Quite Young
Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
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Freedom Moments Myself Refusal
Life consists of burning up questions.
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Burning Consist Life One Liner Question
Actors are athletes of the heart.
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Actor Athlete Heart One Liner
The fixation of the theater in one language–written words, music, lights, noises–betokens its imminent ruin.
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Language Noise Ruin Theatre Writing
Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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Cruelty Decision Strict Theatre
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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Beggar Language Talk True
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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Force Form Imagination Life Magic Observation Ourselves
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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Cleaning Despair Elimination Failure Himself Human Right Try
With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
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Follow Language Public Society
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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Drive Experience Kind Liberty Potential Reality Revolution Shake
We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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Feeling Heart Lying Right
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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Bone Culture Fatigue Price Yourself
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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Book Leadership Myself Open Reality Writing
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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Beautiful Direction Lose 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

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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