"Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness."
-Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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"When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.“
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"It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good."
-Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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"Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties."
-Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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-Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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"Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?"
-Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
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"I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me."
-Susan Smith
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"I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength."
-Dennis Nilsen
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"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."
-Adolf Hitler
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"Strength lies not in defence but in attack."
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"The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people."
-Lydia Sigourney
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"Strength is a matter of the made-up mind."
-John Beecher
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