"I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen."
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"Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing."
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"So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days."
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"I was very fond of Lagneau’s phrase: “I have no comfort but in my absolute despair."
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"A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair"
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"Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force."
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"To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed."
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"Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering"
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"If you're in despair, you don't know how to be part of your own life anymore."
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"I shall despair when I despair of myself, of God and humanity."
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"All shall love me and despair."
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"Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam)"
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"Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we’ve reached a point where we’ve discovered most of the things. I’m going tell you right now: Please don’t despair."
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"An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs."
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"I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks."
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"Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair."
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"If we have fear and despair in us, we cannot remove the suffering in society."
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"Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee."
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"My days are as long as despair can make them."
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"I'm specifically referring to this certain feeling of sadness, fear, and helplessness that descended on me at the Mexico City protest a day or two after the Narvarte murders. Many of us have grown familiar with that feeling. Every few weeks or so it seems we're hit with some new crime or some new corruption scandal that isn't quite the same as a massacre, but that spawns a feeling of futility and despair in its own way."
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