We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
ANTONIN ARTAUD
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Escape
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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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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Those who live, live off the dead.
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I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.
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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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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 call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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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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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses.
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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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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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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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