I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.
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.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
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Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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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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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
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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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I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten.
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The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.
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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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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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I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this–I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.
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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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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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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
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I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.
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