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I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

Antonin Artaud

Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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Difference Feeling Rich Sensuality Spiritual
Life consists of burning up questions.
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Burning Consist Life One Liner Question
[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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Definition Honor Ideas Man Preference Superior
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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Conversation Hang Morning Myself
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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Angel Human Live Need Pain Strength Swallow Understand
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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Gravity Mindset Myself Participation Planet Seek Thinking
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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Instrument Live Shadow Theatre True Way
There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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Character Sex Theatre
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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Beggar Language Talk True
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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Mindset People Poet Quality Word Writing
Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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Cruelty Decision Strict Theatre
To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
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Break Creation Language Life Order Theatre Touch
We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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Feeling Heart Lying Right
I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
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Moments Myself Unique Work
I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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Art Existence Life Myself Separate Work
I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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Death Hold Live Myself Terror

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

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