I myself am an absolute abyss.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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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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Life consists of burning up questions.
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Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols, for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and when the poetry that occurs on the stage sustains and superheats the realized symbols.
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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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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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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 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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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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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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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.
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I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.
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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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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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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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