“If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.”

— Antonin Artaud

Source: The Theater and Its Double

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French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre direc… 1896–1948

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