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Antonin Artaud

French Dramatist

Born: Sep 4, 1896

Died: Mar 4, 1948

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Related authors: Alexandre Dumas Eugene Ionesco Jean Genet Jean Giraudoux Jean Racine 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

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