We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.Antonin Artaud
There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely desperate.
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
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With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
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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. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.
Antonin Artaud
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