In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.
ANTONIN ARTAUDSquander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will … now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality.
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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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Those who live, live off the dead.
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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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The fixation of the theater in one language–written words, music, lights, noises–betokens its imminent ruin.
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When we speak the word ‘life,’ it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
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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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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
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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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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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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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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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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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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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