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Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.

Antonin Artaud

A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.
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Asylum Defend Divine Intellectual Society Trouble
To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
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Break Creation Language Life Order Theatre Touch
All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.
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Mindset People Poet Quality Word Writing
Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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Chaos Myself Sarcasm Sink
There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel.
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Character Sex Theatre
I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality.
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Book Leadership Myself Open Reality Writing
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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Built Exception Hell Paint Writing
I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
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Moments Myself Unique Work
Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
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Cruelty Decision Determination Intention
I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.
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Creation Diagram Mindset Myself Soul
Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.
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Body Desperate Destroy Soul World Yourself
I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.
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Conversation Hang Morning Myself
There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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Asylum Death Insane
Those who live, live off the dead.
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Death Live One Liner
We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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Human Literature Ourselves
[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.
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Definition Honor Ideas Man Preference Superior

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