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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.

Antonin Artaud

The fixation of the theater in one language–written words, music, lights, noises–betokens its imminent ruin.
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Language Noise Ruin Theatre Writing
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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Conscious Crime Drugs Experience Fundamental Poetry Public War
You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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Man Necessary Quite Young
Life consists of burning up questions.
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Burning Consist Life One Liner Question
We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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Human Literature Ourselves
I myself am an absolute abyss.
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Absolute Instagram Captions Myself Space
The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be content, ask him only to be calm, to believe that he has found his place. But only the madman is really calm.
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Believe Himself Life Man Mindset Place Poison Truth
I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
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Moments Myself Unique Work
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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Follow Language Public Society
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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Conversation Hang Morning Myself
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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Battle Beginning Eyes Impossible Ourselves Realize Stage Symbol Theatre
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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Beggar Language Talk True
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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Essential Forget Language Myself Mysterious Possible Talk
The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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Guide Instint Practice
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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Creation Diagram Mindset Myself Soul
I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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Death Hold Live Myself Terror

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