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If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with fo...

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The Theater and Its Double

[defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, ...

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

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I myself am an absolute abyss.

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know t...

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I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that ...

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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself, but to put myself back together again. Suicid...

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Before saying anything further about culture, I consider the world is hungry and does not care about...

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I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this-...

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Lettres à Génica Athanasiou

Que les poètes morts laissent la place aux autres. Et nous pourrions tout de même voir que c'est not...

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The Theater and Its Double

All writing is filth

The Theater and Its Double

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Antonin Artaud

Playwright

Born: 1896-09-04

Died: 1948-03-04

Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud (September 4, 1896 – March 8, 1948), better known as Antonin Artaud, was a French playwright, poet, actor and director.More