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When you are desperate, it's usually because of fear.

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

There's this huge number of desperate people.

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.