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Facts about Antonin Artaud

Occup.Dramatist
FromFrance
BornSeptember 4, 1896
DiedMarch 4, 1948
Aged51 years

Summary

Antonin Artaud was a famous Dramatist from France, who lived between September 4, 1896 and March 4, 1948. He/she became 51 years old.

Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac virgo, who is known for Analyzing, Practical, Reflective, Observation, Thoughtful. Our collection contains 13 quotes who is written / told by Antonin.

Related authors: Alejo Carpentier (Novelist)

13 Famous quotes by Antonin Artaud

Small: When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its
"When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach"
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Small: Those who live, live off the dead
"Those who live, live off the dead"
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Small: So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to
"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"
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Small: I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that
"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"
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Small: Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bon
"Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones"
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Small: Dont tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bo
"Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones"
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Small: No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of
"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell"
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Small: Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for oth
"Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others"
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Small: There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and
"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"
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Small: It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must fr
"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"
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Small: Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY
"Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape"
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Small: All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggars teeth
"All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth"
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Small: 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"
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