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"We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else."
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"Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it."
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"By Fortune's adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn,And not in utter loneliness to live,Myself at last did to the Devil give!"
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"When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep."
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"Thoughts and sorrows seem to have remained on the other side of the mountains. Between tormented men and hateful deeds, a person has to think and sorrow so much! Back there it is so difficult and so desperately important to find a reason for staying alive. How else should a person go on living? Sheer misery makes one profound."
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"...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them."
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"All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it intently. That was because the little star gave me an idea: I made up my mind to kill myself that night. I had made up my mind to kill myself already two months before and, poor as I am, I bought myself an excellent revolver and loaded it the same day. But two months had elapsed and it was still lying in the drawer. I was so utterly indifferent to everything that I was anxious to wait for the moment when I would not be so indifferent and then kill myself. Why -- I don't know."
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"She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.And when hope is gone, time is punishment."
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"There is nothing at all to be done about it, There is nothing to do about anything."
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"The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago, he probably begged out of habit rather than expectation."
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"My body rises with the water. Instead of kicking my feet to stay abreast of it, I push all the air from my lungs and sink to the bottom. The water muffles my ears. I feel its movement over my face. I think about snorting the water into my lungs so it kills me faster, but I can't bring myself to do it. I blow bubbles from my mouth. Relax. I close my eyes. My lungs burn."
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"Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil."
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"A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent."
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"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."
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"There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win."
Soul
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
Love
"Peace is our gift to each other."
Peace
"Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another."
God
"We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else."
Despair
"Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other."
Peace
"Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds."
Quality
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