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“And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky—so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.”

Want Beautiful Certain Dies Stars Space Sun Sky Middle Color Pure Despair Music Is Distance Notes Strikes Frank Sublime Angle Space Between Raindrops Otherness Prisms

Author:Donna Tartt

“Despair was so familiar to me; it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannikin in the window. It could be dispelled by the spectacle of lights surrounding a tower. It could be lifted by the great ghostly shape of St. Patrick's coming into view. And then despair would come again.”

Light Beautiful Views Shapes Despair Window Sight Familiar Towers St Patrick

Book:Memnoch the Devil

Source: Memnoch the Devil

“Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful... ... the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe. Love that, not man Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions, or drown in despair when his days darken.”

Knows Men Whole Beautiful Universe Share Divine Despair Remains Ugly Confusion Wholeness Pitiful Divine Beauty

Book:The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers: With Selected Letters of Una Jeffers

Source: The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers: With Selected Letters of Una Jeffers

“It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.”

Giving May Beautiful Grief Despair Ambition Yield Veils

Author:Honore de Balzac

“All the things that are negative in me as a person - the incompetence and despair and weakness and pain - are like a gift from God in a performer. If you don't hide them and if you stop lying to yourself about what you are and are not, there is a ring or a tent or a stage where you can take them and use them to make something beautiful.”

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Author:Elizabeth Ashley

“I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.”

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Author:Natascha McElhone

“Pale brows, still hands and dim hair, I had a beautiful friend And dreamed that the old despair Would end in love in the end.”

Stills Ends Hands Beautiful Hope Hair Lovers Despair Pale Brows

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats