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Because I remember, I despair.; because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future, but a way to death.

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

To those who despair of everything, reason cannot provide a faith but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.

Deliberation. The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

Pre-dawn lateral insertions are euphemisms for invasions. The Moses of all this confusion never takes us to the promised land.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation ... A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

Disaster is the worst kind of dispair. You go through death and then through life once again.

Lacking brings desperation and desperation brings frustration.