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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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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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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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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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Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind.
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We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
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Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.
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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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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself
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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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To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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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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Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols... for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and when the poetry that occurs on the stage sustains and superheats the realized symbols.
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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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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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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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