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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However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself. – Antonin Artaud

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Order
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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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Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. – Antonin Artaud

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work
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Fatalism is the lazy mans way of accepting the inevitable. – Natalie Clifford Barney

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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 the tide of life turns against you
And the current upsets your boat,
Dont waste tears on what might have been,
Just lie on your back and float. – Anon.

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Make sense who may. I switch off. – Samuel Beckett

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For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, It might have been. – John Greenleaf Whittier

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