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“I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.”

People Thinking Believe Helping Happens Jobs Left Poverty Rights Despair Workers Fewer Providing Competitors

Author:Louise Mensch

“I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.”

Needs Years Left Praying Despair Obsessed Working It Good Years

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“The death of God left the angels in a strange position. They were overtaken suddenly by a fundamental question. One can attempt to imagine the moment. How did they look at the instant the question invaded them, flooding the angelic consciousness, taking hold with terrifying force? The question was, "What are angels?" New to questioning, unaccustomed to terror, unskilled in aloneness, the angels (we assume) fell into despair.”

Looks Moments Left Force Consciousness Imagine Position Strange Despair Angel Fundamentals Assuming Terror Instant Questioning Angelic Flooding

Book:Sixty stories

Source: Sixty stories

“All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.”

Lost Left Grace Despair No Fear No Hope Reception

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors

“There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven.”

Left Heaven Despair Rain Dew Daisies Clovers

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“For sex to be wholly satisfying, we must have at least as much concern for a partner as for self - a requirement that doesn't live comfortably alongside the exhortation to 'do your own thing.' In the end, we are left with an extraordinarily heightened set of expectations about the possibilities in human relationships that lives side by side with disillusion that, for many, borders on despair.”

Humans Ends Self Left Sex Sides Possibility Despair Expectations Concern Partners Borders Satisfying Requirements Human Relations Human Relationships Disillusion

Book:Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?

Source: Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?