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.
ANTONIN ARTAUDThere is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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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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A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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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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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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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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Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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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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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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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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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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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
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Life consists of burning up questions.
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