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Antonin Artaud (September 4, 1896, in Marseille – March 4, 1948 in Paris) was a French playwright, poet, actor and theatre director. Antonin is a diminutive form of Antoine "little Anthony", and was among a list of names which Artaud used throughout his writing career.. actor playwright poet essayist


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Quote Left But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes. Quote Right
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Quote Left All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. Quote Right
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Quote Left And what is an authentic madman? It is 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. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths. Quote Right
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Quote Left No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell. Quote Right
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Quote Left Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape. Quote Right
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