Author: Antonin Artaud

Quotes

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

- Antonin Artaud

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

- Antonin Artaud

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

- Antonin Artaud

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.

- Antonin Artaud

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