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"I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again."
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"Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition."
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"Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret."
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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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"Despair is the source of all evil."
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"You take away my golden dreams and my visions of paradise, in its place you wake me up and hand me your reasons and facts and crude reality. You have ruined my life. If I commit murder or hang myself, let the god I used to pray to repay you in full."
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"He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor."
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"Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence."
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"There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair."
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"It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a different scene, being, in our world, a mirror. Sometimes you will look into a mirror and feel the eyes of Despair upon you, feel her hook catch and snag on your heart. Despair says little, and is patient."
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"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."
Friendship
"Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret."
Despair
"The greatest religions convert the world through stories."
World
"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare."
Home
"Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide."
Art
"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."
Fact
"We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings."
Fiction
"The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things."
Law
"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."
Love
"The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing."
Attention
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