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"Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference."
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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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"Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference."
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Poetry
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Men
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"Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing."
Nothing
"I am for people. I can't help it."
People
"This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it."
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"We might as well die as to go on living like this."
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Beauty
"We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery."
Happiness
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