I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
ANTONIN ARTAUD
I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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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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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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Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
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Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind.
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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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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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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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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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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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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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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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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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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