Those who live, live off the dead.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
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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 true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
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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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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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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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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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We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
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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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[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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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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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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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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