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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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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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Escape, Escapism
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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present. – Antonin Artaud

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Drugs
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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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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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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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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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