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«Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.»
Author: Amy Tan
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Inspiration
| Keywords:
arises, desperation, fluke, Muses
«My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.»
«The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
desperation, lead, leading man, Mass, massed, quiet, quieted, quieter, quietest, quiets, Quiet Life
«What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
confirmed, desperation, resignation
«Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.»
«The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.»
«Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
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chokes, deliberates, deliberation, deliberations, desperation, literally, nowadays, questionable
«Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.»
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