Ah How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.Antonin Artaud
You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, you exceed the normal level, and it is for this that men refuse to forgive you, you poison their peace of mind, you undermine their stability. You have irrepressible pains whose essence is to be inadaptable to any known state, indescribable in words. You have repeated and shifting pains, incurable pains, pains beyond imagining, pains which are neither of the body nor of the soul, but which partake of both. And I share your suffering, and I ask you who dares to ration our relief We are not going to kill ourselves just yet. In the meantime, leave us the hell alone.
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The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything --gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness --rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. . .
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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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The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it.
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Theater of cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty we can exercise upon each other by hacking at each other's bodies, carving up our personal anatomies, or, like Assyrian emperors, sending parcels of human ears, noses, or neatly detached nostrils through the mail, but the much more terrible and necessary cruelty which things can exercise against us. We are not free. And the sky can still fall on our heads. And the theater has been created to teach us that first of all.
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