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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.

Antonin Artaud

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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Conversation Hang Morning Myself
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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Beggar Language Talk True
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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Form Fragile Life Reach Surface Talk Word
Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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Difference Feeling Rich Sensuality Spiritual
The fixation of the theater in one language–written words, music, lights, noises–betokens its imminent ruin.
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Language Noise Ruin Theatre Writing
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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Consciousness Day Death Force Necessary Ourselves Philosophy
I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
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Moments Myself Unique Work
I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
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Born Earth Food Myself People Preference
We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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Human Literature Ourselves
There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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Character Sex Theatre
I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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Actor Burning Call Flame Laughter Myself
When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are on their balconies. I participate in planetary gravitation in the fissures of my mind.
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Gravity Mindset Myself Participation Planet Seek Thinking
We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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Feeling Heart Lying Right
How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.
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Encouragement Function Hard Ourselves Sleep Wake Up
I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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Death Hold Live Myself Terror
[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.
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Definition Honor Ideas Man Preference Superior

There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.

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