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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.


Antonin Artaud

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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 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 ...
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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...
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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-...
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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 Those who live, live off the dead.
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...
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ANTONIN ARTAUD [defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, ...
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