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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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"Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair."

"When you get to know me, I don't despair - I just get up, clean up, and start again."

"I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair."

"We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else."

"There was a listlessness in his gait, as if he saw no reason for taking one step further, nor felt any desire to do so, but would have been glad, could he be glad of anything, to fling himself down at the root of the nearest tree, and lie there passive for evermore. The leaves might bestrew him, and the soil gradually accumulate and form a little hillock over his frame, no matter whether there were life in it or no. Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided."

"Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair."

"Living on pills, phone calls unmade, people unseen, pages unwritten, money unmade, pressure piling up all around to make some kind of breakthrough and get moving again. Get the gum off the rails, finish something, croak this awful habit of not ever getting to the end- of anything."
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"The most successful are not the most perfect, but the imperfect who dare to believe that they can despite the damning verdict."

"Nothing closes doors as quickly as constant bad humor, reclamation, whining. Nobody wants to associate themselves with losers."

"People don't only speak with their mouths. They speak with their whole being. Sometimes they mean what they don't say and say what they don't mean; so listen with your whole being also. Let your whole being connect to theirs. Do not only listen to their voice, but also to their body language and their emotions. Listen with your ears and your heart."

"You don't have to finish today, what is important is that you finish. But remember today might be the last day of your life."
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