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Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Despair is a cop-out, the ultimate abdication of all responsibility, in which people feel justified in their feelings of impotence. But if, on the other hand, you feel that your work in the world does make a difference and that you do have the power to change things, the nay-sayers will turn a deaf ear.

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.

Despair has its own calms.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Despair often breeds disease.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Despair gives courage to a coward.