I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.
ANTONIN ARTAUD
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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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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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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.
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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
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I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.
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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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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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A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt.
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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 am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life.
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The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.
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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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Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.
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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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We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
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The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be content, ask him only to be calm, to believe that he has found his place. But only the madman is really calm.
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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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