Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
ANTONIN ARTAUDHell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
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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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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are on their balconies. I participate in planetary gravitation in the fissures of my mind.
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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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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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Like 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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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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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 cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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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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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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