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No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

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Antonin Artaud
Age: 51 †
Born: 1896
Born: September 4
Died: 1948
Died: March 4
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Marseille
France
Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud
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