In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.
ANTONIN ARTAUD[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.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
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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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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
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I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
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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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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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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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How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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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.
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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
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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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To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
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