Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
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I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
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How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.
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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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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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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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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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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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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 do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
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I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.
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The fixation of the theater in one language–written words, music, lights, noises–betokens its imminent ruin.
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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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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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