Artaud

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

    It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius.
    —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)