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.
ANTONIN ARTAUDWithout sarcasm I sink into chaos.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will … now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality.
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I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.
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Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.
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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 call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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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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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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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
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In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.
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With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
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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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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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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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