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• However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.

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  Order, Practice, Ideas

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.341, Univ of California Press

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• 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 time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius.

  Antonin Artaud

  Men, Doctors, Humanity

  "Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society". Essay by Antonin Artaud, 1947.

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• You are quite unnecessary, young man!

  Antonin Artaud

  Men, Unnecessary, Young

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.85, Univ of California Press

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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 hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior.

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  Struggle, Night, People

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.486, Univ of California Press

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• These terrifying forms which advance on me, I feel that the despair they bring is alive. It slips into this nucleus of life beyond which the paths of eternity extend. It is truly an eternal separation. They slip their knives into this center where I feel myself a man, they sever those vital ties which bind me to the dream of my lucid reality.

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  Dream, Reality, Men

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.93, Univ of California Press

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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.

  Antonin Artaud

  Men, Unhappy, World

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.100, Univ of California Press

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• [Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the thrill of experience ... Although Artaud did not formally cite Nietzsche, [their writing] contains a familiar persuasive authority, a similar exuberant phraseology, and motifs in extremis.

  Antonin Artaud

  Art, Writing, Brutality

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• Not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed the nail of life/-as soon as I lost my matrix mamma,//and the being twisted under him,/and god poured me back to her/(the motherfucker).

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  One Day, Nails, Twisted

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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 ... now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality.

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  Suicide, Suicidal, Reality

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• I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.

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  Soul, Mind, Creation

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.59, Univ of California Press

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• For the lost are lost by nature, all your ideas of moral regeneration will make no difference, there is AN INNATE DETERMINISM, there is an undeniable incurability in suicide, crime, idiocy, madness, there is an invincible cuckoldry in man, there is a congenital weakness of the character, a castration of the mind.

  Antonin Artaud

  Suicide, Character, Men

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• With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

  Antonin Artaud

  Bombs, Language, Tyranny

  Le Monde, September 11, 1970.

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• The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it.

  Antonin Artaud

  Race, Europe, Law

  Antonin Artaud (1968). “Collected works”, Calder Publications Limited

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• Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.

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  Spiritual, Differences, Sensual

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.96, Univ of California Press

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• [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 of human honor.

  Antonin Artaud

  Men, Ideas, Mad

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.485, Univ of California Press

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