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Antonin Artaud : It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present. # Drugs # Work # Absence

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Christian D Larsen : " Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger. " # Drugs # Work # Absence

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Buckminster Fuller : " I think it's absolutely touch-and-go whether we're going to make it. But the point is, for me to tell you that you have an option is not to be optimistic... Time and again, of course I am running into millions who don't know we have the option, because it's invisible, and I feel I have tremendous responsibility. So when people ask me to come and talk to them, I do my best to let them know they do have the option. Of course they're pessimistic, not knowing that. " # Drugs # Work # Absence

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David Foster Wallace : " So then how have irony, irreverence, and rebellion come to be not liberating but enfeebling in the culture today’s avant-garde tried to write about? One clue’s to be found in the fact that irony is still around, bigger than ever after 30 long years as the dominant mode of hip expression. It’s not a rhetorical mode that wears well. As [Lewis] Hyde. . .puts it, "Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy the cage." This is because irony, entertaining as it is, serves an almost exclusively negative function. It’s critical and destructive, a ground-clearing. Surely this is the way our postmodern fathers saw it. But irony’s singularly unuseful when it comes to constructing anything to replace the hypocrisies it debunks. This is why Hyde seems right about persistent irony being tiresome. It is unmeaty. Even gifted ironists work best in sound bites. I find gifted ironists sort of wickedly funny to listen to at parties, but I always walk away feeling like I’ve had several radical surgical procedures. And as for actually driving cross-country with a gifted ironist, or sitting through a 300-page novel full of nothing by trendy sardonic exhaustion, one ends up feeling not only empty but somehow. . .oppressed. " # Drugs # Work # Absence

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Thomas Haynes Bayly : " Absence makes the heart grow fonder: Isle of Beauty, fare thee well! " # Drugs # Work # Absence

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Elizabeth Ashley : " Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. " # Drugs # Work # Absence

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Fernando Pessoa : " The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity. " # Drugs # Work # Absence

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Alexander Herzen : " I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. " # Drugs # Work # Absence

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Christopher Lasch : " It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison. " # Drugs # Work # Absence

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Jane E Brody : " Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline. " # Drugs # Work # Absence

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Garrison Keillor : " To know and to serve God, of course, is why we're here, a clear truth, that, like the nose on your face, is near at hand and easily discernible but can make you dizzy if you try to focus on it hard. But a little faith will see you through. What else will do except faith in such a cynical, corrupt time? When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all this woofing is not the last word. What is the last word, then? Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary things: through cooking and small talk, through storytelling, making love, fishing, tending animals and sweet corn and flowers, through sports, music and books, raising kids — all the places where the gravy soaks in and grace shines through. Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. " # Drugs # Work # Absence

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Antonin Artaud: " And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths." # Madness # Truth # Words

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Antonin Artaud: " However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself." # Order # Ideas # Leaders and Leadership

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Antonin Artaud: " 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." # Poetry and Poets # Books - Reading # Love

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Antonin Artaud: " All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth." # Language # Beggars # Friends and Friendship

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Antonin Artaud: " There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity." # Delinquency # Power # Love

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Antonin Artaud: " 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." # Despair # Love # Failure

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Antonin Artaud: " It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present." # Drugs # Work # Absence

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Antonin Artaud: " Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones." # Fatigue # Culture # Death and Dying

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Antonin Artaud: " 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." # Insanity # Genius # Love

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Antonin Artaud: " When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach." # Life and Living # Love # Age and Aging

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