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

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Written poetry is worth reading once, 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, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. – Antonin Artaud

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Poetry
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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. – Antonin Artaud

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Morning
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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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In the 1960s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal. – Author Unknown

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Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness. – Allen Ginsberg

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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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Drugs

All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal. – Thomas Szasz

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