I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
ANTONIN ARTAUDYou are quite unnecessary, young man!
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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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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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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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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With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
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Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.
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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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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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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
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