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| Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud was a French playwright, poet, actor and theatre director. Antonin is a diminutive form of Antoine , and was among a long list of names which Artaud used throughout his life.Artaud's... |
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![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=22975&author=Artaud"e=++Written+poetry+is+worth+reading+once%2C+and+then+should+be+destroyed.+Let+the+dead+poets+make+way+for+others.+Then+we+might+even+come+to+see+that+it+is+our+veneration+for+what+has+already+been+created%2C+however+beautiful+and+valid+it+may+be%2C+that+petrifies+us.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2Fimages_web%2Fauthor_no_icon.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=13821&author=Artaud"e=++All+true+language+is+incomprehensible%2C+like+the+chatter+of+a+beggar%27s+teeth.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2Fimages_web%2Fauthor_no_icon.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=1198&author=Artaud"e=++There+are+souls+that+are+incurable+and+lost+to+the+rest+of+society.+Deprive+them+of+one+means+of+folly%2C+they+will+invent+ten+thousand+others.+They+will+create+subtler%2C+wilder+methods%2C+methods+that+are+absolutely+DESPERATE.+Nature+herself+is+fundamentally+antisocial%2C+it+is+only+by+a+usurpation+of+powers+that+the+organized+body+of+society+opposes+the+natural+inclination+of+humanity.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2Fimages_web%2Fauthor_no_icon.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=1456&author=Artaud"e=++So+long+as+we+have+failed+to+eliminate+any+of+the+causes+of+human+despair%2C+we+do+not+have+the+right+to+try+to+eliminate+those+means+by+which+man+tries+to+cleanse+himself+of+despair.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2Fimages_web%2Fauthor_no_icon.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=2387&author=Artaud"e=++It+is+not+opium+which+makes+me+work+but+its+absence%2C+and+in+order+for+me+to+feel+its+absence+it+must+from+time+to+time+be+present.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2Fimages_web%2Fauthor_no_icon.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=5369&author=Artaud"e=++Never+tire+yourself+more+than+necessary%2C+even+if+you+have+to+found+a+culture+on+the+fatigue+of+your+bones.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2Fimages_web%2Fauthor_no_icon.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=12573&author=Artaud"e=++There+is+in+every+madman+a+misunderstood+genius+whose+idea%2C+shining+in+his+head%2C+frightened+people%2C+and+for+whom+delirium+was+the+only+solution+to+the+strangulation+that+life+had+prepared+for+him.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2Fimages_web%2Fauthor_no_icon.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=14954&author=Artaud"e=++When+we+speak+the+word+life%2C+it+must+be+understood+we+are+not+referring+to+life+as+we+know+it+from+its+surface+of+fact%2C+but+to+that+fragile%2C+fluctuating+center+which+forms+never+reach.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2Fimages_web%2Fauthor_no_icon.png){kind=link}