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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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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Poetry
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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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Mathematics
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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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Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power. – Phillips Brooks

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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. – George-Louis de Buffon

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