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.
ANTONIN ARTAUDThe idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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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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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
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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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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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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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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
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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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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the 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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