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António Lobo Antunes, GCSE, MD is a Portuguese novelist and medical doctor. He has been named as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.



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✵ 1. September 1942
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“Nothing else exists for them [Psychiatrists] in the universe beyond enormous mothers and fathers, colossal, almost cosmic, and a child reduced to an anus, penis, and mouth who maintains with these two unbearable creatures a singular relationship from which are excluded spontaneity and joy.”

António Lobo Antunes

Source: Knowledge of Hell (2008), p. 191

“Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the most ridiculous, the most unwholesome of the species.”

António Lobo Antunes

Source: Knowledge of Hell (2008), p. 191

“Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.”

António Lobo Antunes

Source: Knowledge of Hell (2008), p. 145

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