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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.   Artaud, Antonin


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Antonin Artaud (September 4, 1896March 4, 1948) was a playwright, actor, and director. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version.

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