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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Source: The Theater and Its Double, Preface: The Theater and Culture, 1938; tr. 1958.
-- Antonin Artaud, (Sep 4 1896-1948), French dramatist, poet, actor; He was theoretician of the Surrealist movement; tried to replace bourgeois classical theatre with his primitive ceremonies of theatre of cruelty.

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