We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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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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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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In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.
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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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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
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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 am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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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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And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.
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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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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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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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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
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