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

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

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

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 often breeds disease.

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

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.

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