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«Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.»
Author: Alfred Victor Vigny
| About:
Anger,
Despair,
Hope
| Keywords:
abolish, convulsion, convulsions, reproaches
«Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim»
«Despair is a great incentive to honorable death»
«Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| About:
Change,
Despair
| Keywords:
desperation, drastic, in the raw, leave behind, raw, raw material, raw materials
«I say my hell is the closet I'm stuck inside»
«Despair is most often the offspring of ill-preparedness»
«Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failur»
Author: Graham Greene
| About:
Despair
| Keywords:
freezing, freezing point, practices, unforgivable
«Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven»
«Despair ruins some, presumption many»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Despair
| Keywords:
presumption, presumptions, ruins
«Despair is the conclusion of fools»
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