Quote by Antonin Artaud
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair. – Antonin Artaud

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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

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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape. – Antonin Artaud

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The person who lives by hope will die by despair. – Italian Proverb

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Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. – Gunther Grass

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Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. – Thomas Carlyle

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