Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI 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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The 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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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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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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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
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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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And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.
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The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.
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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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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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