You are quite unnecessary, young man!
ANTONIN ARTAUDI myself am an absolute abyss.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.
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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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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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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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The fixation of the theater in one language–written words, music, lights, noises–betokens its imminent ruin.
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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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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[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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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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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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Life consists of burning up questions.
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Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols, for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and when the poetry that occurs on the stage sustains and superheats the realized symbols.
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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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