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.
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.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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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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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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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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A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.
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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
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Life consists of burning up questions.
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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 abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
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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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