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"I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair."
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"My body rises with the water. Instead of kicking my feet to stay abreast of it, I push all the air from my lungs and sink to the bottom. The water muffles my ears. I feel its movement over my face. I think about snorting the water into my lungs so it kills me faster, but I can't bring myself to do it. I blow bubbles from my mouth. Relax. I close my eyes. My lungs burn."
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"You have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and a faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose then, your heart has been weeping blood?"
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"Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when heated and exhausted by a long course, in order to breathe more freely. I am often tempted to open a vein, to procure for myself everlasting liberty. Cento volte ho impugnato una lama per conficcarmela nel cuore. Si dice di una nobile razza i cavalli,che quando si sentono accaldati e affaticati, si aprono istintivamente una vena, per respirare piA1 liberamente. Spesso anche io vorrei aprirmi una vena che mi desse libertA eterna."
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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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"The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature had given up hope long ago, he probably begged out of habit rather than expectation."
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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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"To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us."
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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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"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."
Friendship
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
Reading
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
Being
"There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress."
Nature
"If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it."
Heart
"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
Parenting
"Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass."
Wisdom
"Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship."
Love
"The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality."
Life
"One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter."
Life
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