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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Against Another Consists Despairing Grandeur Hoping Life Much Perhaps Sin

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The most despairing songs are the most beautiful, and I know some immortal ones that are pure tears.

~Alfred De Musset

Topics: Beautiful Despairing Immortal Know Most Most Beautiful Pure Some Songs Tears

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

~Andre Breton

Topics: Above Affairs Because Despairing Desperate Everything Imaginable Love Me Most Place State

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I'm not despairing of love at all.

~Andrew Sean Greer

Topics: Despairing Love

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How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.

~Athol Fugard

Topics: Always Beach Call Carried Consciousness Creating Dark Despairing Fearless Felt Hopeful How Insecure Know Known Launching Little Me Nothing Out Presence Sand Save Sea Thin Timid Troubled Unknown Which White Writing

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As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.

~Chris Bohjalian

Topics: Accent Because Calling Calls Despairing Expect Grow Lifetime Nba Never Never Expect Novelist Oprah Oprah Winfrey Phone Phone Calls Receive Stockholm Swedish Them Three Waited Would You Your

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Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Despairing Driven Had Her Letters Me Mum Occasionally Over Serial Write Years

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There's one thing which I hate about color films... people who use up a lot of their despairing producer's money by working in the laboratory to bring out the dominant hues, or to make color films where there isn't any color.

~Claude Chabrol

Topics: About Any Bring Color Despairing Dominant Films Hate Hues Laboratory Lot Make Money One Thing Out People Producer Thing Up Use Where Which Who Working

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What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.

~David Sedaris

Topics: Call Dark Despairing Funny Other People

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In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

~Don Mclean

Topics: Also American Despairing Hopeful Pie Seen Sense Song Very

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