"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."

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Source : Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.99, Univ of California Press

Antonin Artaud

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“But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.”
“I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.”

Source : Amin Maalouf (1998). “Leo Africanus”, p.1, New Amsterdam Books
“If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.”
“Saddam Hussein has raised the amount going to suicide bombers from $10 thousand dollars to $25 thousand. What's next, a health care plan?”
“There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”
“Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.”
“I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long.”
“On-base percentage really doesn't mean that much.”

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