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Daniel Berrigan

"You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can."

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"You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can."

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"What is life but an ongoing war?"

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"People simply say "Struggles bring you success, but they do not understand that those struggles certainly fuck us too."

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"My desperation is deliberate. Despondency's a pheromone."

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"Every moment thou waitest does but increase thy misery, thine attempts to plume thyself and make thyself fit for Jesus are all vanity."

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"Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever."

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"He seemed to be lying on the bed. He could not see very well. Her youthful, rapacious face, with blackened eyebrows, leaned over him as he sprawled there."'How about my present?' she demanded, half wheedling, half menacing."Never mind that now. To work! Come here. Not a bad mouth. Come here. Come closer. Ah!"No. No use. Impossible. The will but not the way. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Try again. No. The booze, it must be. See Macbeth. One last try. No, no use. Not this evening, I'm afraid."All right, Dora, don't you worry. You'll get your two quid all right. We aren't paying by results."He made a clumsy gesture. 'Here, give us that bottle. That bottle off the dressing-table.'"Dora brought it. Ah, that's better. That at least doesn't fail."

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"The demons are not easily dispatched, instead attaching themselves to otherwise beautiful things, a favorite food or a love note left for you, to see how you react when they rear up."

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"I'm Bipolar with PTSD there's no shortage of pain inside of me."

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"Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together."

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