Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
ANTONIN ARTAUDAll true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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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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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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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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All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.
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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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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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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 know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.
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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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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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