"I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility."

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“We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.”

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“I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.”

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“And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.”

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