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• The US ... cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth ... it lives in a perpetual present. in the US everything human is artificial. The country is without hope. What is arresting here is ... both the absence of architecture in the cities and the dizzying absence of emotion and character in the faces and bodies.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Country, Character, Past

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• The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.

  Jane Goodall

  Eye, Speaks Out, Prison

  Jennifer Lindsey, Jane Goodall (1999). “Jane Goodall: 40 years at Gombe : a tribute to four decades of wildlife research, education, and conservation”, Stewart, Tabori and Chang

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• Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed.

  Robert Kennedy

  Passion, Men, Justice

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing of pain. In the face of that, murder itself was surcease: it was quick, and it ended the anguish and despair of a life without hope.

  Steven Erikson

  Pain, Betrayal, Despair

  Steven Erikson (2009). “Gardens Of The Moon: (Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1)”, p.426, Random House

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• Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

  Blaise Pascal

  Vanity, Sea, Curiosity

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• We must do without hope.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.236, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm giving you my life to prove to myself I can, I really can love somebody. Even when I'm not getting paid, I can give love and happiness and charm. You see, I can handle the baby food and the not talking and being homeless and invisible, but I have to know that I can love somebody. Completely and totally, permanently and without hope of reward, just as an act of will, I will love somebody.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Baby, Talking, Giving

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.295, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea. Never as then, amid suicides, hysteria, and groups of fainting people, have I felt the sensation of real death, death without hope, death that is nothing but rottenness, for the spectacle was terrifying but devoid of greatness... I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Suicide, Business, Real

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• It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

  Assata Shakur

  Sake, Given, Idealism

  Assata Shakur (2016). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.9, Zed Books Ltd.

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• The Service without Hope
  Is tenderest, I think--
  ...
  There is no Diligence like that
  That knows not an Until

  Emily Dickinson

  Thinking, Diligence, Knows

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1051, Delphi Classics

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• Without hope of reward
  Provide help to others.
  Bear suffering alone,
  And share your pleasures with beggars.

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Suffering, Rewards, Bears

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• We collected in a group in front of their door, and we experienced within ourselves a grief that was new for us, the ancient grief of the people that has no land, the grief without hope of the exodus which is renewed in every century.

  Primo Levi

  Grief, Doors, Land

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• He thought there was no hope for him. Me? I can't imagine a world without hope.

  Richelle Mead

  World, Imagine, No Hope

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• Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

  Isak Dinesen

  Writing, Despair, Littles

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• People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, People, Novel

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.78, Macmillan

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• if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.

  Charles Bukowski

  Crazy, Thinking, Rooms

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• A world without hope, but no despair

  Henry Miller

  Despair, World

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

  Chris Cleave

  Missing, Young, Knows

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

  William Wordsworth

  War, Suffering, Mourn

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.383

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• Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.

  Raymond Carver

  Despair, Littles, Said

  Raymond Carver, Marshall Bruce Gentry, William L. Stull (1990). “Conversations with Raymond Carver”, p.52, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw no hope and could not remember my old feelings. Then I lived by faith alone, faith without hope. What good did I get from it? I got to have love in my heart.

  Wendell Berry

  Heart, Sacrifice, Joy

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.

  P. D. James

  Past, Men, Beast

  FaceBook post by P.D. James from Jan 01, 2017

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• Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you must'nt shirk it. Love, after all, hopeth all things. But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

  Wendell Berry

  People, Expectations, Loud

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• I want to be a children’s hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Children, Hero, Giving

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• Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies. They may have values but they are not secured by any divine source. Yet we embrace this because we think it represents the truth.

  Julian Baggini

  Thinking, Heaven, Body

  "Yes, life without God can be bleak. Atheism is about facing up to that" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2012.

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