I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
ANTONIN ARTAUDThe actor is an athlete of the heart.
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The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.
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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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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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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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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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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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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.
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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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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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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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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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The fixation of the theater in one language–written words, music, lights, noises–betokens its imminent ruin.
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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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Life consists of burning up questions.
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