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Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame. (Chavez Cesar)
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred. (Chavez Cesar)
The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. (Chavez Cesar)
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. (Chavez Cesar)
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. (Chavez Cesar)
Despair gives courage to a coward. (Chavez Cesar)
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS. (Chavez Cesar)
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. (Chavez Cesar)
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation. (Chavez Cesar)
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes. (Chavez Cesar)
Depression is the inability to construct a future. (Chavez Cesar)
Despair is the only genuine atheism. (Chavez Cesar)
All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty. (Chavez Cesar)
The person who lives by hope will die by despair. (Chavez Cesar)
Life begins on the other side of despair. (Chavez Cesar)
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. (Chavez Cesar)
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! (Chavez Cesar)
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. (Chavez Cesar)
Man dies of cold, not of darkness. (Chavez Cesar)
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o clock in the morning, day after day. (Chavez Cesar)
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. (Chavez Cesar)
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