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Despair Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
- Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
- To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness,…
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- Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought. — Joseph Barbera