Those who live, live off the dead.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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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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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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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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The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be content, ask him only to be calm, to believe that he has found his place. But only the madman is really calm.
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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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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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All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.
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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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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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Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols, for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and when the poetry that occurs on the stage sustains and superheats the realized symbols.
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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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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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