Quote by Antonin Artaud
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shinin

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. – 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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I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. – 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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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. – Samuel Butler

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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. – W. H. Auden

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Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience. – Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon

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What this world needs is a new kind of army — the army of the kind. – Cleveland Amory

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Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. – Samuel Pepys

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