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.
ANTONIN ARTAUDCruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.
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And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.
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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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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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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 an athlete of the heart.
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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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Actors are athletes of the heart.
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar’s teeth.
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten.
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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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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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To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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