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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

Source: Appeal to Youth: Intoxication-Disintoxication (1934; repr. in Selected Writings, pt. 24, ed. by Susan Sontag, 1976).
-- 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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