Do you mark my words; I have learned the language of despair: I have it all by heart, for I am Despair; and a strange being am I, joyous, triumphant Despair….
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"How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!"
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos."
"Did God create man, merely in the end to become dead earth in the midst of healthful vegetating nature?"
"To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death."
"My imagination is dead, my genius lost, my energies sleep."
From 'Mathilda' or 'The Last Man', a paradoxical personification of despair.
Date: 1819 (Mathilda), 1826 (The Last Man)
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