"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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"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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"I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

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"Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

Despair, Fact

"Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair."

Matthew Arnold, English Poet

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"Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair."

Joseph Brodsky, American Poet

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"It is true, in bad time everything turn away from person.My time is really bad .today again even death turn face from me and go away.Hate it."

Mohammed Zaki Ansari, Indian Writer

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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."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

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"Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference."

Charlie Chaplin, English Actor

Despair, Indifference, Mind

"Her despair grew so great that it burst her breast open and like a bird of fire shattered the stone and broke out into the light of day--the light of day, faint in her windowless room."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Despair, Light, Freedom, Emotion

"Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again."

Harold E. Hughes, American Politician

Despair, Sun, Want

"I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way.... I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself."

Laurie Halse Anderson, American Author

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