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"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."
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"The stars will live for me, if not anything else."
"In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness."
"Although I am far too frequently convinced otherwise, with God a dead-end is only the death of an end."
"Confidence and hope builds up in you when you have a glimpse of what your future is like."
"Hope is the little bird that continues to sing the songs of possibilities in your heart when everything else says to give up."
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"Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not."
"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."
"As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it."
"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good."
"The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less."
"The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility."
"Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it."
"Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance."
"The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought."
"Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising."
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