António Lobo Antunes
Portuguese writer
António Lobo Antunes (born 1 September 1942) is a Portuguese novelist.
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Quotes
editKnowledge of Hell (2008)
editAntónio Lobo Antunes (2008) Knowledge of Hell.
- Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.
- p. 145
- 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.
- 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.
- p. 191
