So 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.
ANTONIN ARTAUDSo 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.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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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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Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
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A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt.
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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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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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Life consists of burning up questions.
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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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To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
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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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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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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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