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Antonin Artaud
French
Dramatist
Born:
Sep 4
,
1896
Died:
Mar 4
,
1948
Bones
Hell
Life
Me
Men
Time
Related authors:
Alexandre Dumas
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Jules Renard
Marcel Pagnol
Pierre Corneille
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.
Antonin Artaud
Life
People
Genius
Every
Solution
Madman
Only
Delirium
Had
Head
Idea
Him
Misunderstood
His
Shining
Frightened
Prepared
Whom
Whose
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Antonin Artaud
Language
Teeth
Chatter
True
Like
Beggar
Incomprehensible
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
Man
Try
Long
Despair
Those
Tries
Cleanse
Failed
Himself
Causes
Any
Human
Which
Means
Right
Eliminate
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.
Antonin Artaud
Time
Myself
Morning
Me
Conversation
Made
Every
Suicide
Nine
Spent
Insane
Visit
Asylum
Would
Able
Throat
Never
Had
Obsession
Know
His
Years
Hang
Psychiatrist
Want
Cut
Realizing
Each
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Antonin Artaud
Worth
Reading
Others
Once
Way
Destroyed
Worth Reading
Poetry
Poets
Written
Dead
Make
Then
Should
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