Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
ANTONIN ARTAUDLike all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.
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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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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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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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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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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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Life consists of burning up questions.
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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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In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.
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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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Don’t tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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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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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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