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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
Antonin Artaud
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Antonin Artaud
Age: 51 †
Born: 1896
Born: September 4
Died: 1948
Died: March 4
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Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud
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We must believe in a sense of life renewed by the theater, a sense of life in which man fearlessly makes himself master of what does not yet exist, and brings it into being. And everything that has not been born can still be brought to life if we are not satisfied to remain mere recording organisms.
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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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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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[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.
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There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.
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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, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself
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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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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
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I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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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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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 order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.
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I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.
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The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.
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I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.
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