There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
ANTONIN ARTAUDActors are athletes of the heart.
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Life consists of burning up questions.
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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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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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And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.
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I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten.
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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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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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Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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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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When we speak the word ‘life,’ it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
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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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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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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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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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