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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"My greatest pleasure was the enjoyment of a serene sky amidst these verdant woods: yet I loved all the changes of Nature; and rain, and storm, and the beautiful clouds of heaven brought their delights…"
"I have often thought that the world is a vast prison, where the greater part of mankind are condemned to wear their fetters."
"Did God create man, merely in the end to become dead earth in the midst of healthful vegetating nature?"
"What is the world, except that which we feel? Love, and hope, and delight, or sorrow and tears; these are our lives, our realities, to which we give the names of power, possession, misfortune, and dea…"
"The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil."
From 'Mathilda' or 'The Last Man', a paradoxical personification of despair.
Date: 1819 (Mathilda), 1826 (The Last Man)
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