To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
ANTONIN ARTAUDAntonin Artaud Quotes
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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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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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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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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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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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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
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I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
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