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"And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea."
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"After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely."
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"Then suddenly you're left all alonewith your body that can't love youand your will that can't save you."
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"It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me."
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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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"Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus."
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"It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write what I want to say as well as what I did) feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world."
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"I felt so weak and unhappy that I buried my face in the ground: I could not bear the strain of seeing around me the things of the earth. I felt convinced that every movement and every thought was forced, and that one had to be on one's guard against them."
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"Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair."
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"Despair is a wholly selfish response to fortune's slings and arrows."
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"Despair has its own calms."
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"Business is the salt of life."
Business
"You are very harsh.''I have seen the world."
Reality
"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted."
Family
"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."
Thought
"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."
Faith
"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."
Earth
"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year."
Opportunity
"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
Man
"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
Man
"The punishment of criminals should be of use when a man is hanged he is good for nothing."
Justice
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