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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering??”this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o???clock in the morning, a forgo
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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Henry David Thoreau
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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D. A. Battista
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It marriage happens as with cages the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out.
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Edmund Burke
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Never despair but if you do, work on in despair.
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Paul E. Pfuetze
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Now the alternative to despair is courage. And human life can be viewed as a continuous struggle between these two options. Courage is the capacity to affirm one's life in spite of the elements which threaten it. The fact that courage usually predominates over despair in itself tells us something important about life. It tells you that the forces that affirm life are stronger than those that negate it.
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William Walsh
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I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Life begins on the other side of despair.
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Menander
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He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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A. Alvarez
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Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
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H. G. Wells
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Thomas Jefferson
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My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
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Kahlil Gibran
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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
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C. S. Lewis
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Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
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C. S. Lewis
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Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
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MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 44.
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The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
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SHELLEY: _Revolt of Islam, Dedication,_ St. 6
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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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BYRON: _Two Foscari,_ Act i., Sc. 1.
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Despair defies even despotism; there is That in my heart would make its way thro' hosts With levell'd spears.
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CAMPBELL: _Pl. of Hope,_ Pt. ii., Line 325.
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O star-eyed Science! hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?
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Henry David Thoreau
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Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.
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Alfred Victor Vigny
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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.
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Peggy Noonan
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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.
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Dax Ward
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Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.
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Unknown
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Lord, make me an instrument of your peace where there is hatred, let me sow love where there is injury, pardon where there is doubt, faith where there is despair, hope where there is darkness, light and where there is sadness, joy.
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Thomas Hobbes
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Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope the same, without such opinion, despair.
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Sri da Avabhas
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All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.
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Francis Bacon
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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.
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Saint Francis of Assisi
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Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy.
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Saint Francis of Assisi
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O Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace!
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is discord, harmony.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where t
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Elie Wiesel
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This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which a
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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SHAKS.: _Com. of Errors,_ Act v., Sc. 1.
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Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy, Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair, And, at her heels, a huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures, and foes to life?
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Luella F. Phean
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Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.
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TENNYSON: _The Princess,_ Pt. iv., Line 21.
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Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.
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POPE: _Ode on St. Cecilia's Day,_ St. 7.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please; Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above.
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Clive Staples Lewis
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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FALCONER: _Shipwreck,_ Canto iii., Line 642.
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Again she plunges! hark! a second shock Bilges the splitting Vessel on the Rock-- Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries The fated victims shuddering cast their eyes, In wild despair; while yet another stroke, With strong convulsion rends the solid
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BURNS: _Scotch Drink._
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Give him strong drink until he wink, That's sinking in despair; An' liquor guid to fire his bluid, That's prest wi' grief an' care, There let him house and deep carouse, Wi' bumpers flowing o'er, Till he forgets his loves or debts, An' minds his griefs no
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Charles Dickens
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times it ws the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair we had everything before us, we had nothing before us we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way.
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Robert Burns
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Ae fond kiss, and then we severA farewell, and then foreverDeep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves himMe, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me.
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Anne Frank
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I have often been downcast, but never in despair I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.
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Carl Sandburg
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I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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Despair is like a cable that is buried just under the surface of the ground. You pull it up and pull it up, but that cable just keeps right on going, clear across a field, until you come to a bunch of guys who are burying the cable. Then just walk up to them and go, 'Hey, have you seen Fred' And they'll say, 'Fred who' And you say, 'Fred of snakes' Then cover your ears, because big laughs are coming.
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Henri Nouwen
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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
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Charles Dickens
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
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Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
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He who has never hoped can never despair.
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In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
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Action is the antidote to despair.
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I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
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Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
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What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
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When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.
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Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
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He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.
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Despair has been called the unforgivable sin--not presumably because God refuses to forgive it but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.
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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
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Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on
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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 known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it ?always.
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Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart.
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The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.
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Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!
Where there is hatred let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy
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More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
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More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
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More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
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Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.
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"Doubt is brother-devil to Despair." JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY
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"Love can hope where reason would despair." Lord Lyttleton
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
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I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die no soul will pity me:
And wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself?
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Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
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"Look into the eyes of The Dragon and despair." -- Merlin
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My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.
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There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how
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"The Fates? Here? That is indeed bizarre..." -- Despair
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"Excuse me, while I dance a little jig of despair."
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I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision
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There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The
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Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
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"Where am I?" "In the pit of despair!" - The Princess Bride
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