So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses.
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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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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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
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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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Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.
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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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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.
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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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I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.
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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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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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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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