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“I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that every conversation I had with a psychiatrist during the morning visit made me long to hang myself because I was aware that I could not slit his throat.”
― Antonin Artaud

tags: artaud, insane-asylum, mental-health, psychiatrist, suicidal, suicide

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“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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“I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after taking the utmost pains that I can to be perspicuous, some obscurity may still appear to remain upon a subject, in its own nature extremely abstracted.”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

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“Fools need Advice most, but wise Men only are the better for it.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

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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”
― Antonin Artaud

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