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People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

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By seeing the multitude of people around it, by being busied with all sorts of worldly affairs, by being wise to the ways of the world, such a person ...more

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Hence it is a superficial view (which presumably has never seen a person in despair, not even one’s own self) when it is said of a man in despair, "He...more

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Everyone take his revenge on the world. My revenge consists in bearing my distress and anguish enclosed deeply within me while my laughter entertains ...more

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Yet in another and still more definite sense despair is the sickness unto death. It is indeed very far from being true that, literally understood, one...more

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Satan's despair is absolute because Satan, as pure spirit, is pure consciousness, and for Satan (and all men in his predicament) every increase in con...more

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With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness the...more

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...The discrepancy is that the ethical self should be found immanently in the despair, that the individual won himself by persisting in the despair. T...more

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You are a hater of activity in life; quite right, for before there can be any meaning in activity, life must have continuity, and this your life lacks...more

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Just as the weak, despairing person is unwilling to hear anything about any consolation eternity has for him, so a person in such despair does not wan...more

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The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; ...more

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Whether you are man or woman, rich or poor, dependent or free, happy or unhappy; whether you bore in your elevation the splendour of the crown or in h...more