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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

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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

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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

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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Tragedy is a representation of action that is worthy of serious attention, complete in itself and of some magnitude – bringing about by means of pity and fear the purging of such emotions. – Aristotle

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Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. – Jacques Barzun

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

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