All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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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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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
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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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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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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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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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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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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
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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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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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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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The fixation of the theater in one language–written words, music, lights, noises–betokens its imminent ruin.
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