Despair Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“Just to love! She did not ask to be loved. It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in…

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“He remembered those weeks of timid indecision, during which he had looked and longed and despaired of ever having the courage to ask her.…

— Aldous Huxley

“She paused, cleared her throat twice, and I suddenly realized she was crying. "If you want to love someone, then go right ahead. I…

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“But what I cannot settle in my mind is that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her…

— Charles Dickens

“I wish to God I might induce her to mind me!' he ejaculated.”

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“Now that I've found you, it scares me witless to think of anything happening. To you. I'm not used to being... afraid." A sudden…

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“Some days, Rachel thinks, there is rapture. Everything connects, everything is right and good and there is nothing troubling, not even in paradox. For…

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“She had seen this relationship dying before it ever lived, but allowed optimism and lust to blind her.”

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“Before marriage she had completely mastered my imagination, for she was a secret to me; and I created the unknown thought before which I…

— George Eliot

“Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things... But a little word from the…

— Helen Keller

“She’s contemplative; I can feel the air around her thick with her thoughts. “No,” she says at last, “I want to believe you’re being…

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