Life consists of burning up questions.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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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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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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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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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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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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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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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
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I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten.
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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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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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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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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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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