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From Quotes by Antonin Artaud
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact,…
- Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
- I 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…
- It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to…
- 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…
- And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than…
- However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between…
- I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself
- 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…
- I destroy because for me everything that proceeds from reason is untrustworthy. I believe only in the evidence of what stirs my marrow, not in…
- I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
- And war is wonderful, isn't it? For it's war, isn't it, that the Americans have been preparing for and are preparing for this way step…
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