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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.

Source: General Security: The Liquidation of Opium (1925; repr. in Selected Writings, pt. 10, ed. by Susan Sontag, 1976), arguing for the free use of opium.
-- Antonin Artaud, (Sep 4 1896-1948), French dramatist, poet, actor; He was theoretician of the Surrealist movement; tried to replace bourgeois classical theatre with his primitive ceremonies of theatre of cruelty.

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