Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI 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.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.
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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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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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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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Those who live, live off the dead.
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I myself am an absolute abyss.
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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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Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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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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So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses.
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I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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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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Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
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I 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.
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