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Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.
(Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Czech novelist, short-story writer. Journal entry, July 21, 1913. The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1910-1923, ed. Max Brod (1948).)
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
(Elie Wiesel (b. 1928), Rumanian-born U.S. writer. Nobel lecture, Dec. 11, 1986, Oslo, Norway.)
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Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.
(Albert Camus (1913-1960), French-Algerian philosopher, author. "The Rejection of Salvation," pt. 2, The Rebel (1951, trans. 1953).)
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It was begotten by despair
Upon impossibility.
(Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), British poet. The Definition of Love (l. 3-4). . .
The Complete Poems [Andrew Marvell]. Elizabeth Story Donno, ed. (1972, repr. 1985) Penguin.)
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Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee:
(Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), British poet. Carrion Comfort (l. 1). . .
Gerard Manley Hopkins. Catherine Phillips, ed. (1986) Oxford University Press.)
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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
(R.D. (Ronald David) Laing (1927-1989), British psychiatrist. The Divided Self, ch. 2 (1959).)
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Hope and despair ignore one another's cries.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Seventh Selection, New York (1990).)
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Despair often breeds disease.
(Sophocles (497-406/5 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Fragments, l. 585 (Tyro).)
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Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection, New York (1993).)
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The modernist writers found despair inspirational.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Tenth Selection, New York (1992).)
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