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

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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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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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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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