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To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
Antonin Artaud
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Antonin Artaud
Age: 51 †
Born: 1896
Born: September 4
Died: 1948
Died: March 4
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Marseille
France
Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud
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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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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
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And war is wonderful, isn't it? For it's war, isn't it, that the Americans have been preparing for and are preparing for this way step by step. In order to defend this senseless manufacture from all competition that could not fail to arise on all sides.
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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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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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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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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself
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If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.
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