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.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI 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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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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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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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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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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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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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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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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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.
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Life consists of burning up questions.
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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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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