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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

~Antonin Artaud

Topics: Delirium Every Frightened Genius Had Head Him His Idea Life Madman Misunderstood Only People Prepared Shining Solution Whom Whose

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Those who live, live off the dead.

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Topics: Dead Live Off Those Who

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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

~Antonin Artaud

Topics: Any Causes Cleanse Despair Eliminate Failed Himself Human Long Man Means Right Those Tries Try Which

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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

~Antonin Artaud

Topics: Absence Feel From Time To Time Makes Me Must Opium Order Present Time Which Work

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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

~Antonin Artaud

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Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

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Topics: Bones Culture Even Fatigue Founding More Need Price Than Tire Your Yourself

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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

~Antonin Artaud

Topics: Built Ever Except Get Hell Invented Literally Modeled Out Painted Written

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Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

~Antonin Artaud

Topics: Bones Culture Even Fatigue Found More Necessary Never Than Tire You Your Yourself

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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.

~Antonin Artaud

Topics: Center Fact Forms Fragile Know Life Must Never Reach Referring Speak Surface Understood Which Word

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I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

~Antonin Artaud

Topics: Able Asylum Conversation Cut Each Every Had Hang His Insane Know Made Me Morning Myself Never Nine Obsession Psychiatrist Realizing Spent Suicide Throat Time Visit Want Would Years

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Dramatist

Born: September 4th, 1896

Died: March 4th, 1948

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