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"Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair."
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"I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would have caught at cobwebs."
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"I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way.... I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself."
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"We destroy ourselves when we are ignorant or decide to live in ignorance."
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"It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write what I want to say as well as what I did) feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world."
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"Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss."
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"Where is my chance to be somebody's Peter Van Houten?' He hit the steering wheel weakly, the car honking as he cried. He leaned his head back, looking up. 'I hate myself I hate myself I hate this I hate this I disgust myself I hate it I hate it I hate it just let me fucking die."
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"So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wait. That's all."
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"When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make."
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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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"I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything."
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"This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man."
Evil
"Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair."
Despair
"A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star."
Nature
"Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies."
Father
"An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven."
Time
"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
"Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."
Science
"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
"Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith."
Faith
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