"The deepest form of despair is to..." - Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.
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“No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth”
“I was always able to understand my friend who decided to quit smoking and who, through an effort of will, succeeded in doing so. One morning, he opened the newspaper, read that the first H- bomb had exploded, found out about the bomb's admirable effects and went straight to the tobacconist's.”
“It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.”