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.
ANTONIN ARTAUDActors are athletes of the heart.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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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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Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
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Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
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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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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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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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Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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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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I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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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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Those who live, live off the dead.
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This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.
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