I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
ANTONIN ARTAUDSo long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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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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All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.
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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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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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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
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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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The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.
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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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Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.
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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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Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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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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