When we speak the word ‘life,’ it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
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.
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And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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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 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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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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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.
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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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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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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
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I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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Leave 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.
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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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I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
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