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  • #039;s statement that "the most common despair is to be in despair at not choosing, or willing, to be oneself; but that the deepest form ...
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  • began to become widely acknowledged, people would despair and nihilism would become rampant, including the relativistic belief that human will is a law ...
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  • price in terms of anguish, forlornness, and despair. Once we realize ... Finally, this process of self-realization can lead to despair. For ...
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  • , based on Twenty Poems of Love and a Song of Despair, by Pablo Neruda. In addition to the sonata, his piano works include Excursions Op. 20, ...
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  • conflict between integrity and despair. He proposed that attaining wisdom is a favorable resolution and product of this conflict. Strength here ...
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  • see Rapunzel again, he leapt from the tower in despair and was blinded by the thorns below. For months he wandered through the wastelands of the ...
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  • often vacillating between hope and despair. "I feel that a great event was coming, but what it was exactly was not revealed to me," ...
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  • for the vast majority of mankind has led many to despair, since so few seem to be counted among the elect. Throughout history, John of Patmos' visions ...
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  • * (1936) Otchayanie (Отчаяние); English translation: Despair (1937, 1966) * (1938) Priglasheniye na kazn' (Приглашение ...
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  • Alone and driven to despair over the FM debacle, Armstrong, dressed in full coat and hat, jumped to his death from the thirteenth floor window ...
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  • Mistral published her first collection of poems, Desolación (Despair) in 1922. The main themes of this collection are that of Christian faith ...
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  • is as difficult to live with, as was his former despair. Later, in his "Letter to Posterity," Petrarch wrote: "In my younger days I ...
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  • answers and eventually falling into a state of despair (aporia) about how to proceed. However, in contrast with the earlier dialogues, Socrates is now ...
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  • of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress ... I replace melancholy by courage, doubt by certainty, despair by hope ...
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  • reason as Herzen fell into emotional despair for several years. In London his despair eventually gave way to a revived energy for involvement ...
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  • God, his seeming silence in the suffering, despair and hope of humanity is ... tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to another only ...
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  • every man's hand against me, I am here in despair. And why; For doing what Brutus was honored for and what made Tell a Hero. And yet I for striking ...
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  • issue with the philosophy of uncertainty and despair that Koheleth appears to preach. In its place, the Book of Wisdom offers the much more traditional ...
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  • Knight of Holiness encounters the figure of Despair, and escapes only thanks to the unexpected intercession of Una, the True Church. Spenser's ...
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  • with a sublime feeling of subdued despair. One of these poems, The Last Love, is often cited as Tyutchev's masterpiece. In the early 1870s ...
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