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Survival is nothing more than recovery.
Survival is nothing more than recovery.
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, read more
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.
When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.
When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only read more
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope
They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly,
But bear-like I must fight the course.
They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly,
But bear-like I must fight the course.
In all things it is better to hope than to despair
In all things it is better to hope than to despair
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.
Discomfort guides my tongue
And bids me speak of nothing but despair.
Discomfort guides my tongue
And bids me speak of nothing but despair.
Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through his cypress-trees
Who, hopeless, lays his dead read more
Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through his cypress-trees
Who, hopeless, lays his dead away,
Nor looks to see the breaking day
Across the mournful marbles play!
