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.
ANTONIN ARTAUDHow 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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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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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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Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
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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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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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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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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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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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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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Life consists of burning up questions.
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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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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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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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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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