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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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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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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

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Born: September 1, 1942 (age 82)
Bio: António Lobo Antunes is a Portuguese novelist and medical doctor. He has been named as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Known for:
  1. The Land at the End of the World (1979)
  2. The return of the caravels (2002)
  3. Fado Alexandrino (1983)
  4. Knowledge of Hell (2008)
  5. The inquisitors' manual (2003)

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