Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
ANTONIN ARTAUDTragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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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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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses.
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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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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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Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it.
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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 do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
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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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Don’t tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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