I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
ANTONIN ARTAUDWe must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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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 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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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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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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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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Life consists of burning up questions.
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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
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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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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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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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Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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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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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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