With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
ANTONIN ARTAUD
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.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
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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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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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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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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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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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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
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How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.
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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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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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If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.
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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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