I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
ANTONIN ARTAUDThose who live, live off the dead.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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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 have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this–I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.
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Life consists of burning up questions.
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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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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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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 cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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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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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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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 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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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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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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Don’t tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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