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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.
Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society (1947)
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.
Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society (1947)
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.
Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society (1947)
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.
Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society (1947)