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Quotes from General Security: The Liquidation of Opium — Antonin Artaud

1896–1948 France

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

General Security: The Liquidation of Opium (1925)

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.

General Security: The Liquidation of Opium (1925)

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.

General Security: The Liquidation of Opium (1925)

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