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Repr. in Selected Writings, pt. 24, ed. Susan Sontag (1976)Appeal to Youth: Intoxication-Disintoxication (1934)Ci-GÃ®t (1947)Collected Works (1956, trans. 1968)General Security: The Liquidation of Opium (1925)

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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.

Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud (1896–1948), French theater producer, actor, theorist. repr. in Selected Writings, pt. 33, ed. Susan Sontag (1976). Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society (1947).

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