"[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out."
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"Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything."
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"Despair and Genius are too oft connected"
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"Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand."
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"Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life from one moment to the next. But there's the other side of the coin, the second thing that could make a human being take a totally different course from one he or she had planned; and that was called despair. Yes, perhaps love really could transform someone, but despair did the job more quickly."
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"Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity."
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"Despair snuffs the sun from the firmament."
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"I have often been downcast, but never in despair."
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"Despair lames most people, but it wakes others fully up."
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"I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope."
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"You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair."
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"An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . In despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. Consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper. . . . To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneself-this is the formula for all despair."
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"Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal."
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"Despair makes priests and friars."
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"Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom."
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"Love and despair go hand in hand."
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"You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us"
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"“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”"
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"The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair."
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"As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair."
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