madman

is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor, rather than become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses.

And what is an authentic madman' It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths. Antonin Artaud

is, in part, 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.

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

is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

is distinguished from the professional in this: a professional does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.

What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.

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