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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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"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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"Despair is a wholly selfish response to fortune's slings and arrows."
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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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"I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything."
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"I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them."
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"So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wait. That's all."
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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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"A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one."
Will
"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
Love
"Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved."
Will
"'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman."
Education
"You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words."
Thought
"He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views."
Confidence
"Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass."
Business
"Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study."
Despair
"If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me."
Love
"Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond."
Wit
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