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“Youth, elastic and bright, disdains to be compelled. When conquered, from its very chains it forges implements for freedom; it alights from one baffled flight, only again to soar on untired wing to...”
“Knowing the Techniques of Survival........Our fears and anxieties will often drive us to build impenetrable walls that act like blinders deflecting others and preventing us from seeing who surround...”
“In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!”
“Christ! What are patterns for?”
“The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right,White as a knuckle and terribly upset.It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quietWith the O-gape of complete despair. I live here.”
“Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my lifes esteems; Even the dearest that I love...”
“Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despairOf not being able to expressWith a shout, an extreme and bitter shout,The bleeding of my heart.”
“For many, the search for Jesus is initiated from experiencing an event in life so powerful, it awakens the dragons of faith; from pain so deep, it calls on the hidden fears of the soul in an effort...”
“The strength of your mind determines the depth of your desperation! The weaker the mind, the deeper the desperation!”
“When we grow in faith, the doubt shall ceased.”
“Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart.”
“Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of it. The human mind was easier to medicate than to comprehend.”
“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.”
“My first feeling was that there was no way to continue. Writing isn't like math;in math, two plus two always equals four no matter what your mood is like. With writing, the way you feel changes eve...”
“There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.”
“Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.”
“Despair was a private weakness she could not afford to indulge.”
“The survived souls give strength to the suffering souls.”
“The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a c...”
“Overworking leads to exhaustion.”
