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"Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair."
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"People suicide because of the board rules, they don't like it. So people suicide, they don't see any other out of this place!"
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"Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep."
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"Entering by the carré, a piece of mirror-glass, set in an oaken cabinet, repeated my image. It said I was changed: my cheeks and lips were sodden white, my eyes were glassy, and my eyelids swollen and purple. On rejoining my companions, I knew they all looked at me - my heart seemed discovered to them: I believed myself self-betrayed. Hideously certain did it seem that the very youngest of the school must guess why and for whom I despaired."
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"It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a different scene, being, in our world, a mirror. Sometimes you will look into a mirror and feel the eyes of Despair upon you, feel her hook catch and snag on your heart. Despair says little, and is patient."
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"She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.And when hope is gone, time is punishment."
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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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"We destroy ourselves when we are ignorant or decide to live in ignorance."
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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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"Despair is the source of all evil."
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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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"Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical."
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"This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man."
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"Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth."
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"Neutral men are the devil's allies."
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"Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy."
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"At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion."
Men

"The essence of justice is mercy."
Justice

"The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant."
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"The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it."
Life

"Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair."
Despair
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