António Lobo Antunes citations

“Écrire est un plaisir et une corvée.”

António Lobo Antunes

“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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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António Lobo Antunes

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