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Quotes from The Theatre and Its Double — Antonin Artaud

1896–1948 France

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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.

The Theatre and Its Double (1938)

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.

The Theatre and Its Double (1938)

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