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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.

Antonin Artaud

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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Beautiful Direction Lose True
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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Form Fragile Life Reach Surface Talk Word
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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Body Desperate Destroy Soul World Yourself
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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Absence Feeling Myself Present Time Work
To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
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Break Creation Language Life Order Theatre Touch
The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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Guide Instint Practice
I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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Art Existence Life Myself Separate Work
[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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Definition Honor Ideas Man Preference Superior
Those who live, live off the dead.
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Death Live One Liner
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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Artistic Flame Hell Ourselves Time Victim
Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
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Enough Life Myself Stage Tragedy
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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Instrument Live Shadow Theatre True Way
There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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Character Sex Theatre
The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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Actor Athlete Heart One Liner
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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Bone Culture Fatigue Price Yourself
I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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Actor Burning Call Flame Laughter Myself

Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.

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