We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
ANTONIN ARTAUD
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A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.
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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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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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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
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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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To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
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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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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.
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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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A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.
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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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Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
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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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The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be content, ask him only to be calm, to believe that he has found his place. But only the madman is really calm.
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