Quote by Antonin Artaud
It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order

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

Other quotes by Antonin Artaud

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. – Antonin Artaud

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

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It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously. – Jean Cocteau

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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. – Chinese Proverb

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Drugs

A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do. – Eric Hodgins

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Drugs

Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, that found me poor at first, and keep me so. – Oliver Goldsmith

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