Those who live, live off the dead.
ANTONIN ARTAUDLeave 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.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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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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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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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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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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Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
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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 stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.
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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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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten.
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