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“Everyone take his revenge on the world. My revenge consists in bearing my distress and anguish enclosed deeply within me while my laughter entertains everyone. If I see someone suffer I give him my...”
“As I was looking at myself in the bathroom mirror, it occurred to me that if all else failed, a man could at least kiss himself, and I stared in to the mirror, conjuring up the memory of the couple...”
“And the world suddenly appeared to me as such an awfully large place, with I so totally alone in it that I could have cried from the bottom of my heart.”
“...I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?...”
“The greatest hazard of all, losing ones self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a ...”
“But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return. Was that so depressing?Who knows? Maybe th...”
“When ladies as young, and good, and beautiful as you are," replied the girl steadily, "give away your hearts, love will carry you all lengths--even such as you, who have home, friends, other admire...”
“In the end, the innate desire of all people for truth, justice, and human understanding must triumph over ignorance and despair.”
“Where there is ignorance, there you will find despair; with knowledge comes hope.”
“She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and she wanted nothing more than to be swallowed up by the darkness and to disappear forever.”
“To toil, to think, to long, to grieve,Is such my future fate?The morn was dreary, must the eveBe also desolate?”
“It seems like I have lived a lifetime in just one day.”
“Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.”
“A brutal, relentless self-analysis lies at the heart of all despair.”
“I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable.I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I ...”
“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with mysel...”
“you are a ring tone on the phone I didnt answer”
“Hope transcends everything. It goes beyond all doubts. It silences fear. It quiets despair.”
“Distress leads to dimness.”
“The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indifference which comes, temporarily at least, toeven the bravest and most enduring when, willy nilly,...”
