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Men Quotes by Antonin Artaud
- 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…
- Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
- We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
- In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.
- And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than…
- It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same…
- The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be…
- I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never…
- [defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea…
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