Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
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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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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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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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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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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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[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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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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Those who live, live off the dead.
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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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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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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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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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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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I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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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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