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Artaud, Antonin
Identifier
006126
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
various quotes
A description of the experience
There is in every madman
a misunderstood genius
whose idea
shining in his head
frightened people
and for whom delirium was the only solution
to the strangulation
that life had prepared for him
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I would like to write a Book which would drive men mad, which would be like an open door leading them where they would never have consented to go, in short, a door that opens onto reality
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I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain
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I destroy because for me everything that proceeds from reason is untrustworthy. I believe only in the evidence of what stirs my marrow, not in the evidence of what addresses itself to my reason. I have found levels in the realm of the nerve. I now feel capable of evaluating the evidence. There is for me an evidence in the realm of pure flesh which has nothing to do with the evidence of reason. The eternal conflict between reason and the heart is decided in my very flesh, but in my flesh irrigated by nerves...
The source of the experience
Artaud, AntoninConcepts, symbols and science items
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
HeroinTaking drugs
Suppressions
Brain damageLaudanum
Manic depression
Opium
Schizophrenia