Antonin Artaud Quotes

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggars teeth. - Antonin Artaud Quotes

Dont tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones. - Antonin Artaud Quotes

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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. - Antonin Artaud Quotes

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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. - Antonin Artaud Quotes

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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present. - Antonin Artaud Quotes

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Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. - Antonin Artaud Quotes

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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell. - Antonin Artaud Quotes

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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair. - Antonin Artaud Quotes

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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. - Antonin Artaud Quotes

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Those who live, live off the dead. - Antonin Artaud Quotes

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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. - Antonin Artaud Quotes

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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human. - Antonin Artaud Quotes

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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. - Antonin Artaud Quotes

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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. - Antonin Artaud Quotes

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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. - Antonin Artaud Quotes

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Beggars  Bones  Culture  Dont  Escape  Even  Founding
From  Hell  Language  Like  More  Need  Price
Teeth  Than  Their  There  This  Tire  True
World  Your  Yourself