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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But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes. – Antonin Artaud

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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. – Antonin Artaud

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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall — think of it, ALWAYS. – Mahatma Gandhi

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

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Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. – Joseph Conrad

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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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When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky. – Buddha

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Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. – Margaret Mead

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Three chords and the truth – thats what a country song is. – Willie Nelson

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We are taught to consume. And thats what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that its just a mind set, that its just an addiction, then we wouldnt be out there stepping on peoples hands climbing the corporate ladder of success. – River Phoenix

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