I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI 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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Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
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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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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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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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If 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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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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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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I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
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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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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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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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Life consists of burning up questions.
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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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