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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.

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Antonin Artaud
Age: 51 †
Born: 1896
Born: September 4
Died: 1948
Died: March 4
Actor
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Comedy Writer
Director
Essayist
Film Actor
Film Critic
Film Director
Painter
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Poet
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Screenwriter
Marseille
France
Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud
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Not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed the nail of life/-as soon as I lost my matrix mamma,//and the being twisted under him,/and god poured me back to her/(the motherfucker).
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To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
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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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The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it.
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We do not die because we have to die we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
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Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
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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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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
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A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.
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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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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
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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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But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.
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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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I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.
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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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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
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