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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With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. – Antonin Artaud

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Tyranny
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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. – Antonin Artaud

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

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Creativity
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Despair
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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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Despair

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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Despair

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Despair

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. – William Blake

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Despair

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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. – Franz Kafka

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. – Greg Anderson

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