I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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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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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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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Life consists of burning up questions.
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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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I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this–I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.
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[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.
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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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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 signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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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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Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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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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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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By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will … now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality.
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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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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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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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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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To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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