Quote by Antonin Artaud
Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. – Antonin Artaud

Other quotes by Antonin Artaud

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

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Drugs
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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

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Morning
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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

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Despair
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Tragedy
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Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. – Germaine Greer

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Tragedy

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions. – Aristotle

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Tragedy

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. – William Dean Howells

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Tragedy

The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. – Ernst Fischer

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Tragedy

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The question of whether its Gods green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying. – Edward Hoagland

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We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God. – Angelo Scola

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