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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.

— Antonin Artaud General Security: The Liquidation of Opium (1925)

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Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society (1947)

Where there is a stink of shit
there is a smell of being.

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