Artaud

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    All true language
    is incomprehensible,
    Like the chatter
    of a beggar’s teeth.
    —Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)

    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 (1896–1948)

    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 (1896–1948)