"[Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the thrill of experience ... Although Artaud did not formally cite Nietzsche, [their writing] contains a familiar persuasive authority, a similar exuberant phraseology, and motifs in extremis ..."

-- Antonin Artaud

#Art Quotes #Writing Quotes #Brutality Quotes

“The Best way to help the world is to help someone!”
“I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning.”
“I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians, are taught to think about.”
“Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen.”
“Truly God was good, to make man so blind.”
“You do not have to go to either criminalizing and throwing people in prison. I don't think you should do that for people who are using any drugs. I think they absolutely need treatment.”
“I'm an animal thug, I grew up eatin' animal cookies”
“If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home.”

Source : Clifford Geertz (2012). “Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics”, p.96, Princeton University Press

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