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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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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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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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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Every great genius has an admixture of madness. – Aristotle

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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh: A Tale, 1849

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To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out. – Marguerite Blessington

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