#despair

Even in despair there are the most burning pleasures, especially when you are already very strongly conscious of

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Except in relation to your fellow men, have you ever known uncertainty? Have you ever observed how, within yourself

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In the remote depths, in the most inward parts, in the hidden recesses of happiness, there dwells also the anxious dread

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Generally the need of solitude is a sign that there is spirit in a man after all, and it is a measure for what spirit there

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With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing

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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet

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There is not love of life without despair about life.

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If you are wise, mingle these two elements: do not hope without despair, or despair without hope.

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With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases:

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