We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
ANTONIN ARTAUDThere is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this–I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.
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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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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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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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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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By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will … now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality.
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In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.
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I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.
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In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.
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I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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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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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
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[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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