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"Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it—so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world."
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"there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants."
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