[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.
ANTONIN ARTAUDI 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.
More Antonin Artaud Quotes
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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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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 abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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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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Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.
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The fixation of the theater in one language–written words, music, lights, noises–betokens its imminent ruin.
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The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable symptom of our power to castrate.
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I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
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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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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 see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.
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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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