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.
ANTONIN ARTAUDWritten poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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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 do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
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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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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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Don’t tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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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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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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Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
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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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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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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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So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses.
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I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.
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