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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.
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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[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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Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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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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[Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the thrill of experience ... Although Artaud did not formally cite Nietzsche, [their writing] contains a familiar persuasive authority, a similar exuberant phraseology, and motifs in extremis.
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I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
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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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