Top 12 Arthur Adamov Quotes
#1. It is nasty when you're playing in someone else's house to point out that they don't have enough balls.
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#2. The crisis of our time is essentially a religious crisis. It is a matter of life or death.
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#3. The name of God should no longer come from the mouth of man. This word that has so long been degraded by usage no longer means anything ... To use the word God is more than sloth, it is a refusal to think, a king of short cut, a hideous shorthand.
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#4. Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.
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#6. Perhaps the sad and empty language that today's flabby humanity pours forth, will, in all its horror, in all its boundless absurdity, re-echo in the heart of a solitary man who is awake, and then perhaps that man, suddenly realizing that he does not understand, will begin to understand.
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#7. I know I earn less at my primary school than you do, but I don't have to work as hard at my primary school.
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#8. The reason why Absurdist plays take place in No Man's Land with only two characters is primarily financial.
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#9. A stage play ought to be the point of intersection between the visible and invisible worlds, or, in other words, the display, the manifestation of the hidden.
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#10. What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from
I cannot name it. But I am separated.
Arthur Adamov
#12. The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.
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