"He who does not know how to populate his solitude , does not know either how to be alone in a busy crowd"
Charles Baudelaire, The Parisian Prowler
"Despair, feeding, as it always does, on phantasmagoria, is imperturbably leading literature to the rejection, en masse, of all divine and social laws, towards practical and theoretical evil"
Isidore Ducasse-Lautréamont, Les Chants du Maldoror
"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, Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society