Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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The fixation of the theater in one language–written words, music, lights, noises–betokens its imminent ruin.
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So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses.
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Life consists of burning up questions.
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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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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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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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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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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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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will … now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality.
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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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Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
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I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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