I myself am an absolute abyss.
ANTONIN ARTAUDIf 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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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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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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Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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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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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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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 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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And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.
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Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.
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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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