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

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. – Antonin Artaud

Category:
Tyranny
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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

Category:
Mathematics
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Other Quotes from
Drugs
category

One pill, two pill, three pill, four,
five pill, six pill, seven pill, floor. – Anon.

Category:
Drugs

Junk is the ideal product… the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy. – William S. Burroughs

Category:
Drugs

I once tried to snort Coke but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose. – Johnny Yune, James Orr, and Ross Jeffries, They Still Call Me Bruce, 1987

Category:
Drugs

I will lift up mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-coloured, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills. – Malcolm Muggeridge

Category:
Drugs

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Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? – Patrick Henry

Category:
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When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath. – August Strindberg

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When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying? – Tony Campolo

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