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“It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.”

Men Desire Belief Difficult Youth Despair Spring Prepared Injustice Privilege Disappointment Optimistic Agony Outrage Hopefulness

Book:The Galantrys

Source: The Galantrys

“To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your own joy and happiness in life is increased that way, and the pleasures of the belief outweigh the occasional disappointments. To be a cynic about people works just the other way around and makes you incapable about enjoying the good things.”

People Ifs Way Believe Important Seems Life Is Joy Belief Enjoy Pleasure Good Things Disappointment Be Good Incapable Occasional Life Happiness Joy And Happiness Cynic

Book:It's Been a Good Life

Source: It's Been a Good Life

“A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.”

World Humans Art Literature Belief Energy Human Beings Results Numbers Fantasy Direct Disappointment Inadequate Mishaps

Author:Christopher Hampton

“A true proposition is a proposition belief which would never lead to such disappointment so long as the proposition is not understood otherwise than it was intended.”

Long Truth Belief Understood Disappointment Propositions

Book:Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

“There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief is not an option for us. Political disappointment flows from the fact that there is injustice - that we live in a world that is radically unjust and violent, where might seems to equal right, where the poor are exploited by the rich, etc.”

World Two Facts Seems Might Form Political Belief Interest Religious Poor Rich Equal Flow Injustice Disappointment Violent Realization Etc Unjust Religious Belief

Book:Impossible Objects

Source: Impossible Objects