Quote by Benjamin Disraeli
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. - Benj

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit. – Benjamin Disraeli

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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. – Gunther Grass

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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair. – Antonin Artaud

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Make sense who may. I switch off. – Samuel Beckett

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It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand. – Andre Dubus

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