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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…
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the…
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When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its…
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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…
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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.
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Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
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By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will ...…
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The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything - gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness - rediscovers itself…
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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
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There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will…
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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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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called…
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out…
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Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is…
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If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There…
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He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
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The britishh seizure of Hong Kong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the britishh Empire: the takeover…
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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously.…
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Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!
— Thomas de Quincey
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It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens…
— Frei Betto
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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must…
— Antonin Artaud
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[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon…
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