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Antonin Artaud (Writer)

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 time

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 life

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

— Antonin Artaud pain

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

— Antonin Artaud language

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

— Antonin Artaud poetry

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

— Antonin Artaud self

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 self

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 life

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.

— Antonin Artaud men

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

— Antonin Artaud literature

Those who live, live off the dead.

— Antonin Artaud live

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 time

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

— Antonin Artaud self

The actor is an athlete of the heart.

— Antonin Artaud art

There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely desperate. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.

— Antonin Artaud nature

Si je me tue ce ne sera pas pour me détruire, mais pour me reconstituer, le suicide ne sera pour moi qu’un moyen de me reconquérir violemment, de faire brutalement irruption dans mon être, de devancer l’avance incertaine de Dieu. Par le suicide, je réintroduis mon dessin dans la nature, je donne pour la première fois aux choses la forme de ma volonté.

— Antonin Artaud nature

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