Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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.
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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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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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Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.
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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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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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Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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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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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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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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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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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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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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The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it.
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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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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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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are on their balconies. I participate in planetary gravitation in the fissures of my mind.
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Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
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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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A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt.
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I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.
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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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