This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.
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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Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
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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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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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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
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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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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
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Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind.
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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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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I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
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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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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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