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"When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make."
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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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"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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"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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"He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor."
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"When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again."
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"The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair."
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"Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways."
People
"Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville."
Music
"Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation."
Love
"Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much."
Being
"And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books."
Life
"I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle."
Beauty
"My luck at the gambling table was varied; sometimes I was fifty to a hundred dollars ahead, and at other times I had to borrow money from my fellow workmen to settle my room rent and pay for my meals."
Money
"Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune."
Fortune
"It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree."
Man
"As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs."
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