To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
ANTONIN ARTAUD
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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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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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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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it.
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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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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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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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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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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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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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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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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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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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