You are quite unnecessary, young man!
ANTONIN ARTAUDDon’t tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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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 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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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.
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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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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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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
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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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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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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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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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