My dear Angel / Letters to Genica Athanasiou | Antonin Artaud, 1921-40
Man Ray, Antonin Artaud, 1926 / Man Ray, Genica Athanasiou, 1925
“Wonderful night of twinkling stars staring at me from the depths of the Empyrée your milky face is not even equal to the lunar flowers of your topaz-colored eyes.”
“A year full of love! How beautiful!”
“I put your photo on the wall. She brings me your image. I still remember the scent, the strength of your body. Your flesh is soft and strong at the same time, as you are, full of poetry”.
“I spit on the ecstasies of my soul. I hate all my works. I am here…”
“I already feel disconnected from myself, from my body”
“I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this–I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.”
“When someone is truly loved, they accept it whole, with their vices, their defects, their miseries, without getting tired. I will never consent to separate from you EVER. Every second is an eternity of hell, WITHOUT EXIT.”
“I cannot live with the idea that I might have to live without you. Let me see you from time to time at least. I cried warm tears in the train carriage in front of everyone.”
“You are the only person with whom I can say that I am myself”
“We are always friends but we will live separately you will arrange your life and you will be free from me and from time to time we will meet.”
“What a sweet soul you carry and that you shared with me. Thank you for allowing me to live in you and make you a part of my life.”
Antonin Artaud, Letters to Genica Athanasiu, 1921-40
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Flick Review < The Seashell and the Clergyman | Antonin Artaud / Germaine Dulac, 1928
Love Letters | Maria Casares & Albert Camus, 1944-1959
