Quote by Antonin Artaud
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees f

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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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. – Antonin Artaud

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Despair
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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

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Tyranny
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Escape, Escapism
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Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. – Jean Cocteau

Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads. – Andre Breton

The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordons gin; out of any businessmans life there is the mirage of Paris; out of Paris, or mediocrity of talent and imagination, there are all the drugs, from subtle, all-conquering opium to cheating, cozening cocaine. – William Bolitho

What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself. – Horace

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That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didnt entirely conquer — he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation. – Hunter S. Thompson