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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/destroy-yourselves-you-who-are-desperate-and-you-who-are-tortured-in/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

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## More by Antonin Artaud

> [With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/with-society-and-its-public-there-is-no-longer-any-other-language/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/i-cannot-conceive-any-work-of-art-as-having-a-separate-existence-from/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [“This is why a tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/this-is-why-a-tainted-society-has-invented-psychiatry-to-defend/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [“I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/i-myself-spent-nine-years-in-an-insane-asylum-and-i-never-had-the/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [“Insane asylums are deliberate and premeditated receptacles of black magic, and it is not only that doctors encourage magic with their untimely and hybrid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/insane-asylums-are-deliberate-and-premeditated-receptacles-of-black/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/how-hard-is-it-when-everything-encourages-us-to-sleep-though-we-may/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/this-is-why-true-beauty-never-strikes-us-directly-the-setting-sun-is/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/and-what-is-an-authentic-madman-it-is-a-man-who-preferred-to-become/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/the-truth-of-life-lies-in-the-impulsiveness-of-matter-the-mind-of-man/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/all-writing-is-garbage-people-who-come-out-of-nowhere-to-try-and-put/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/squander-your-riches-far-from-this-unfeeling-body-to-which-no-season/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/the-race-of-prophets-is-extinct-europe-is-becoming-set-in-its-ways/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/when-i-think-about-myself-my-thought-seeks-itself-in-the-ether-of-a/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/it-is-almost-impossible-to-be-a-doctor-and-an-honest-man-but-it-is/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

> [Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antonin-artaud/without-sarcasm-i-sink-into-chaos/)

[Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antonin-artaud/)

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