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“Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?”

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“The terrifying experience and obsession of death, when preserved in consciousness, becomes ruinous. If you talk about death, you save part of yourself. But at the same time, something of your real self dies, because objectified meanings lose the actuality they have in consciousness.”

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“I had wanted to disappear, if only so the cancer could disappear with me. But the stars whispered that there was no such thing. You don’t ever disappear. You just change. You leave. You move on. But you never disappear. Even when you think you want to.”

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Book:The Song of David

Source: The Song of David

“... What of this "despair?" I know it all too well... because up until now... I've climbed up, kicked it in it's teeth, and surpassed it... over and over again just to make it to this very moment!”

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Book:Bleach―ブリーチ― 74 [Burīchi 74]

Source: Bleach―ブリーチ― 74 [Burīchi 74]

“Love was undoubtedly one of the things capable of changing a person's whole life, from one moment to the next. But there was the other side of the coin, the second thing that could make a human being take a totally different course from the one he or she had planned; and that was called despair. Yes, perhaps love really could transform someone, but despair did the job more quickly.”

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Book:Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

“Despair is not solid. Neither is joy. They alternate, and contain each other. There is no joy that is not also touched by sorrow, no grief that is not rendered sharper by the memory of bliss. If things move forward in one direction and not another, they do so by rolling there, passing through the same tight orbit, touching here an ecstasy, there another shattering loss.”

Book:The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine

Source: The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine

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Book:The Irrational Mind: How To Fight Back Against The Hidden Forces That Affect Our Decision Making

Source: The Irrational Mind: How To Fight Back Against The Hidden Forces That Affect Our Decision Making

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“You’re trying to look for rock bottom, to that part of yourself that could no longer feel pain. But there is no such thing as rock bottom. As long as there is left to destroy in you, you’d do it. We always feel the need to sink ourselves because we keep being intolerable, because if we’re suffering then maybe people would give us a break for all the shameful things we do. You think you could impose your own penance, but it never goes away, does it? That kind of deadening that’s worse than actual dying.”

Book:All My Lonely Islands

Source: All My Lonely Islands