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.
ANTONIN ARTAUDNo one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are on their balconies. I participate in planetary gravitation in the fissures of my mind.
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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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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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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 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 prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
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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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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.
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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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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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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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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
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