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"Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths 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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"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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"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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"This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man."
Evil
"Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle."
Poetry
"Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order."
Darkness
"Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite."
Soul
"Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman."
Gentleman
"The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant."
Heart
"Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."
Action
"Neutral men are the devil's allies."
Men
"Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."
Science
"The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool."
Heart
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