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"There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair."
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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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"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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"It's despair at the lack of 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. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me."
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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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"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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"Maybe a holiday miracle will change Mearth's awful behavior, Mandy suggested with optimism."The only holiday miracle around here is that Mearth hasn't murdered us both yet, said Alecto, lighting another cigarette, his hands shaking erratically. He looked exhausted and terrified, his gray eyes soulless."Do you know what Mearth likes, Alecto? Mandy questioned."Vegetables, she likes celery a lot, and lettuce, Alecto responded in a quiet monotone. "I don't know what else she likes. I've never asked her."Well, she has to like something, doesn't everyone?"Not her, Mandy Valems."
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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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"Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair."
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"My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it."
Courage
"Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake."
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"There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair."
Despair
"He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more."
Poor
"One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner."
Sin
"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart."
Heart
"When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart."
Heart
"If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot."
Comfort
"Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air."
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