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“She thought of the recurrent waves of pain that for some reason or other she and her husband had had to endure; of the invisible giants hurting her boy in some unimaginable fashion; of the incalcul...”
“Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.”
“the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.”
“He waited for the black, terrible anger as though for some beast out of the night. But it did not come to him. His bowels seemed weighted with lead, and he walked slowly and lingered against fences...”
“I wish you did return my regard," he said. "More than I have ever wished anything in my life! Perhaps you may yet learn to do so: I should warn you that I don't easily despair!”
“Having no intercourse with anyone, she lived in the torpid state of a sleep-walker.”
“Ivanov: I am a bad, pathetic and worthless individual. One needs to be pathetic, too, worn out and drained by drink, like Pasha, to be still fond of me and to respect me. My God, how I despise myse...”
“Grumble weakens the spirit.Despair is counterproductive.Both are true toxicants in life.”
“Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.”
“To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.”
“I feel as if I had been born dead underAmerican bombardment.”
“The fundamental fact about all of us is that were alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real root cause of all our anger and pain and despair. And you can either run from thi...”
“But, as I say, I was toofull of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have neverknown danger may doubt it) too desperate to die.”
“Bosch had never liked Las Vegas, though he came often on cases. It shared a kinship with Los Angeles; both were places desperate people ran to. Often, when they ran from Los Angeles, they came here...”
“Temptation is not his (Satan's) strongest weapon. Despair is.”
“When you are sad, do not bow your head in despair, lift it up; you can see and fight better when your head is up!”
“What was the power that induced strong soldiers to put off their jackets and shirts, and present their hands to be tied up, and tortured for hours, it might be, under the scourge, with an air of re...”
“Well, here I am, just come home; a fellow gone to the bad; though I had the best intentions in the world at one time. Now I am melancholy mad, what with drinking and one thing and another.”
“Nothing is more seductive than nothing.”
“I kissed fate on the cheek and she spat in my face.”
