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“Despair leads to distress.”
“To failure at something is an attempt to succeed”
“I keep my hope alive.”
“Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?”
“Oh, Mercds, I have spoken your name with sighs of melancholy, with groans of pain and with the croak of despair. I have spoken it frozen with cold, huddled on the straw of my dungeon. I have spoken...”
“Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. IT transits, pauses, continues on and passes out of sight, and I see despair coming towards me like famine. To feel that empty, again, ...”
“He looks forlornly ahead of him, gazing at the road but looking at nothing in particular. The whole world is one big giant ball of light to him, and he feels like a bug inside it, waiting to be squ...”
“This will be a winter so desolate, only memory can fill the emptiness”
“You want to know what the saddest part is Tess? I said, sounding choked up.Whats that Josh?I felt my heart constricting as the brutal truth flowed from my lips. You say shes mine...but honestly, I ...”
“The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure than in inventing new ways to make each other miserable.”
“I sometimes wish I could spontaneously combust. Burn until nothing but ash is left, to be washed away by the wind and the rain.”
“She became the bad company that she kept.”
“She searched her mind for a single day when it had felt good to be alive. There must have been one, surely?”
“I walk out the door with a heavy feeling in my heart as another secret falls on top of it.”
“Sadness is the ambrosia of all art.”
“Man may fail you. But God will never forsake you.”
“A good novel can be a doorstop to despair.”
“I have hated you in every hour that has gone by, I hate you so that I would happily give my life for your death, and happily go to my own doom if only I could witness yours, take you with me into t...”
“I still remember our first meeting, when Albers brought him to my house. On the little carriage which carried him from the station, and which was hardly built with such loads in mind, sat a massive...”
“Really, this people, only yesterday so intelligent and discerning, seem to have been overcome by a disease of the mind”
