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Antonin Artaud

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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
CARSON MCCULLERS Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
J.K. ROWLING Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The people who live everywhere are the same as those who live nowhere.
VIKRANT PARSAI They weren't just people paying to see a show. They were part of it. There was such a euphoric feeli...
LIVE AID There was something totally unique and I am not sure I've ever felt it since,
LIVE AID the largest ever TV audience; the busiest Web site in the world; the largest ever online petition --...
LIVE AID For God's sake, take this seriously. Don't behave normally. Don't look for compromises. Be great,
LIVE AID I think I'd go for Collingwood, who can bowl a few overs and bat a bit,
FIVE LIVE They go to Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United and set their stall to get a result so if it mea...
FIVE LIVE I would never have played Wilkinson in a million years,
FIVE LIVE I don't think the league is getting boring,
FIVE LIVE Even sarcastic play is not allowed - the referee cannot accept that.
FIVE LIVE The EU has 25 countries and in Europe there are 52 national associations. Fifa has 205 around the wo...
FIVE LIVE The EU is not against this,
FIVE LIVE According to one FA source I spoke to, 'Sven has a lot of thinking to do', particularly about the mi...
FIVE LIVE Graham needs more time,
FIVE LIVE Obviously I've been hoping to get a chance this summer and Simon's had this ankle problem over the l...
FIVE LIVE It would be difficult to throw Tremlett in.
FIVE LIVE I've never felt like this watching Test matches. It is incredible,
FIVE LIVE Oh may I join the choir invisible / Of those immortal dead who live again / In minds made better by ...
GEORGE ELIOT Those who live are those who fight.
VICTOR HUGO The world can be divided into two categories: those who eat to live and those who live to eat.
VIKRANT PARSAI The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.
KENZABURō ŌE It is right to seek peace for the dead. You and I both know there is no peace for those who live aft...
MADELINE MILLER They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB The old world told men merely about to live and to die.
Today men think about defeating death a...
TOBA BETA Funerals are for the living. If we have not done for the dead while they were yet in flesh, it is to...
ROELIF COE BRINKERHOFF O may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again
In minds made bette...
GEORGE ELIOT live for those who understand you, forget those who don't.
ROSA M. BETANCES They are not dead who live in lives they leave behind; In those whom they have blessed, they live a ...
HUGH ROBERT ORR There has been a strong campaign to inform those who live on the edge of the park to tell them they ...
IBRAHIMA DIOP Only those live who do good.
LEO TOLSTOY Those who bother less...live less...
JENNY ROSALES-FERAER Only those live who do good.
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Those who seek death shall live. Those who seek life shall die.
YI SUN-SIN In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm.
WOODY ALLEN Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depressio...
ANDREW SOLOMON The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong.
NEIL STRAUSS Those who live by the sword have close shaves.
LESLIE MIKLOSY Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.
Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Those who love to live enjoy the beauty of life.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal...
ADOLF HITLER Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal ...
ADOLF HITLER The King is dead! Long live the King!
JULIA PARDOE I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who ...
CHRISTOPHER HAMPTON It shouldn't just go to those who live along the shore.
ALAN MOUNTJOY When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from i...
ANTONIN ARTAUD If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide...
ANTONIN ARTAUD You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, yo...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
ANTONIN ARTAUD The stage is a concrete physical place which asks to be filled, and to be given its own concrete lan...
ANTONIN ARTAUD The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything
ANTONIN ARTAUD Theater of cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of...
ANTONIN ARTAUD However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itsel...
ANTONIN ARTAUD With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, a...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find t...
ANTONIN ARTAUD But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about dif...
ANTONIN ARTAUD And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted s...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNA...
ANTONIN ARTAUD The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath...
ANTONIN ARTAUD It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothe...
ANTONIN ARTAUD So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of fol...
ANTONIN ARTAUD There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
ANTONIN ARTAUD It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psy...
ANTONIN ARTAUD I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know t...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of yo...
ANTONIN ARTAUD We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness...
ANTONIN ARTAUD The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Where there is a stink of shit there is a smell of being
ANTONIN ARTAUD All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
ANTONIN ARTAUD I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this-...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD When we speak the word ''life',' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it fr...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all ho...
ANTONIN ARTAUD We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
ANTONIN ARTAUD I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of you...
ANTONIN ARTAUD When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know...
ANTONIN ARTAUD [defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, ...
ANTONIN ARTAUD Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of...
ANTONIN ARTAUD There is in every madman
a misunderstood genius
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ANTONIN ARTAUD From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live int...
ESTHER DYSON Success isn't something you have, it's something you do. Don't be fooled into taking shortcuts, they...
STEVE MARABOLI Don't die before you're dead...
PADDICK VAN ZYL No one can pray well, but those who live well.
PROVERB For those of us who live here, it's group therapy.
ARTHUR HARDY Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
UNKNOWN Books are for only those who can live without television.
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ANTONIN SCALIA find itself unable to resolve the significant legal issue presented by the case.
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ANTONIN SCALIA that reliability be assessed in a particular manner: by testing in the crucible of cross-examination...
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ANTONIN SCALIA They don't have any separate harm.
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