"We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else."
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"He is the truly courageous man who never desponds."
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"Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn't it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?"
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"We stand at a crossroads. One path leads to despair, the other to destruction. Let's hope we make the right choice."
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"Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing."
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"Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair."
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"The lover never despairs. For a committed heart everything is possible."
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"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."
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"Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair."
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"To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring."
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"Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair."
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"Despair is the conclusion of fools."
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"The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage."
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"To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word."
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"My only refuge, as a serious young man, from the despair of my financial burden to my family, is that I did everything I could to never permit myself any amusements or diversions except those afforded by my studies."
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"What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death."
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"Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process."
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"In idleness there is a perpetual despair."
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"The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope."
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"The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree of consciousness, the more intensive the despair. This is everywhere apparent, most clearly in despair at its maximum and minimum. The devil's despair is the most intensive despair, for the devil is sheer spirit and hence unqualified consciousness and transparency; there is no obscurity in the devil that could serve as a mitigating excuse. Therefore, his despair is the most absolute defiance. . . ."
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