You are quite unnecessary, young man!
ANTONIN ARTAUD
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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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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.
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I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
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In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.
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Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.
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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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I prefer the people who eat off the bare earth the delirium from which they were born.
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[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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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses.
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Those who live, live off the dead.
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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
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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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Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols, for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and when the poetry that occurs on the stage sustains and superheats the realized symbols.
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