Category Archives: Hope

Reinaldo Arenas, Before Night Falls

“The body suffers more than the soul, because the soul can always find something to hang on to, a memory, a hope.”

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John-Paul Sartre, Les Mots / Words

“With neither tools nor equipment, I gave my entire self to the task of saving my entire self.”

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Erica Jong, Parachutes and Kisses

“Once she ceased expecting, she ceased being angry - for anger is really disappointed hope.”

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Henry Miller on Writing

“Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not want you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It’s a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.”

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Julio Cortazar, Hopscotch

“Of all our feelings the only one which doesn’t belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it’s life defending itself.”

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