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• I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each…
• There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the…
• When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its…
• So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to…
• Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
• Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
• By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will ...…
• The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself…
• No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
• All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
• There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will…
• It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain…

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