This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.

This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.

And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.

Actors are athletes of the heart.

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.