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I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.

Antonin Artaud

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
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Break Creation Language Life Order Theatre Touch
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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Believe Himself Life Man Mindset Place Poison Truth
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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Battle Beginning Eyes Impossible Ourselves Realize Stage Symbol Theatre
We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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Feeling Heart Lying Right
There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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Character Sex Theatre
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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Bone Culture Fatigue Price Yourself
I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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Art Existence Life Myself Separate Work
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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Hands Life Man Myself Virtue
Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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Chaos Myself Sarcasm Sink
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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Art Ideas Mistake Ourselves Poetry Power
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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Beggar Language Talk True
I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
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Moments Myself Unique Work
Actors are athletes of the heart.
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Actor Athlete Heart One Liner
The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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Guide Instint Practice
If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
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Destroy Myself Suicide Togetherness
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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Built Exception Hell Paint Writing

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