You are quite unnecessary, young man!
ANTONIN ARTAUD
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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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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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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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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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All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.
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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 cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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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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I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.
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I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.
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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.
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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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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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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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