"Those who live, live off the dead." — Antonin Artaud
"Those who live, live off the dead."
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Antonin Artaud
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59 Quotes by Antonin Artaud
Antonin Artaud has 59 quotes on this site.
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I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know…
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium…
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When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it…
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the…
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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact…
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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…
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By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my…
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The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness -…
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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
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There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly,…
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It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves…
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More Dead Quotes
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
— Aristophanes
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent…
— David Attenborough
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
— Margaret Atwood
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
— Margaret Atwood
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
— Sri Aurobindo
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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the…
— Paul Auster
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
— Francis Bacon
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