"I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself"

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Antonin Artaud

#Art Quotes #Existence Quotes #Works Of Art Quotes

“Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.”
“I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.”

Source : Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.39, Open Road Media
“What does it say about our country when people are so desperate for an alternative to our one-party state masquerading as a two-party state that they'll even elect a professional wrestler governor?”
“How fragile we are, between the few good moments.”

Source : Jane Hirshfield (2011). “Come, Thief: Poems”, p.6, Knopf
“I think that the kinds of stereotypes that people have about Haitians or about HIV sufferers exist because we don't realize that these are our brothers, our sisters, our aunts and uncles, our neighbors. They are us. And I don't mean that in some metaphorical sense. They are literally us.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous (and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable list!), but one of these days there'll be nothing left with which to venture forth. Why should I share you? Why don't you get rid of someone else for a change?”
“Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.”

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