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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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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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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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To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred. – Albert Camus

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

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