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  • tends toward love as a source of torment and despair rather than happiness. In this regard, Cavalcanti is perhaps the most realistic of all his fellow ...
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  • piously. Others, while believing in the divine, may despair of ever fully comprehend what it is in which they believe. * Agnostic atheism is the ...
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  • There is a kind of tragic despair about Michels' presentation. Freedom-loving socialists are inspired to seek social innovations that avoid ...
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  • to lead her on, giving her hope, but leaves her in despair. Her unrequited love only brings her ridicule and scorn, reminding society that if ...
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  • The Scream (1893; originally called Despair) is perhaps his most famous work and was stolen twice; it is one of the most recognizable and iconic ...
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  • poorest and most marginalized people from despair.' In the US, the National Council of Christian has produced Eradicating Poverty: A Christian ...
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  • Gazette or the Oxonian Advertiser), but I do not despair of doing so some day," he wrote in July 1855. In 1856, he published his first piece ...
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  • Jessie Alice Tandy (June 7, 1909 – September 11, 1994) was a British-American actress. Tandy appeared in over 100 stage productions and had ...
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  • with Horrours, and sometimes almost with despair." Marjorie Hope Nicolson, "Sublime in External Nature," in Dictionary of the History ...
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  • often expressed an existentialist despair over the loss of faith, but are trapped in the rationalist universe with no hope of breaking out. Bergman ...
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  • from his family. In 1823, he attempted suicide in despair. Late in his career, he made the acquaintance of Olinde Rodrigues, who became inspired by Saint ...
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  • Understanding that reason leads to despair, Unamuno concluded that one must abandon all pretence of rationalism and simply embrace faith. ...
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  • side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our ...
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  • the poet was plunged into an abyss of misery and despair to which his diary bears heartrending witness; his sufferings found poetic expression in the ...
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  • In 1978, he released Despair. Shot in English on a budget of 6,000 ... | Despair | Despair - Eine Reise ins Licht | Screenplay by Tom Stoppard ...
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  • the experiences the shame, fear, pain, despair, and rage caused by primal wounding suffered in life. One way to think of the lower unconscious ...
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  • on Qu Yuan, saying that he wrote Li Sao in despair after he had been slandered, wanting to persuade his sovereign of his loyalty and of the wisdom ...
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  • hostile natives drove the would-be settlers to despair. Cartier spent the rest of his life in Saint-Malo and his nearby estate, and died aged ...
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  • of our enlightened men who begin to despair of a more complete union of the States in Congress have secretly proposed an Eastern, Middle, and ...
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  • Browne's musical study of soul-searching and despair set against the backdrop of a decaying society. [[Image:David Lindley.jpg|thumb|left ...
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