Hopelessness and despair

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Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno [Hell]." La Comedia di Dante Alleghieri [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri]. Foligno: Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini da Trevi, 1472.

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Alighieri, Dante. "Inferno." The Divine Comedy, edited by David H. Higgins, translated by C. H. Sisson. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 1, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 2.

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"The Fix Up." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and Elaine Pope, directed by Tom Cherones, season 3, episode 16, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1992.

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Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Schocken Books, 1951, pt. 3, ch. 12, sec. 3.

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Sartre, Jean-Paul. Les Mouches [The Flies]. 3 June 1943, Théâtre de la Cité, Paris, France, act 3, sc. 2.

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Sartre, Jean-Paul. "The Flies." No Exit and Three Other Plays, translated by Stuart Gilbert. Vintage, 1989, act 3, sc. 2.

We never have despair without some small hope.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Pasolini, Pier Paolo. "Un'Appendice alla 'Religione': Una luce [An Appendix to 'Religion': The Light]." La religione del mio tempo. [The Religion of My Time]. c. 1961.

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Pasolini, Pier Paolo. "Appendice alla 'Religione': Una Luce/Appendix to 'The Religion of My Time: A Light." The Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolinia: A Bilingual Edition, edited and translated by Stephen Sartarelli. University of Chicago Press, 2015.

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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. Записки изъ подполья [Notes from Underground]. Epoch, Jan-Apr. 1864.

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Dostoevsky, Fyodor. "Notes from the Underground." Notes from the Underground and The Double, translated by Ronald Wilks. Penguin Classics, 2009.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Albert Camus

Love of Life

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Camus, Albert. "Love of Life." Lyrical and Critical Essays. Vintage, 1970.

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Baratynsky, Yevgeny. Two Fates. c. 1823.

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Russell, Bertrand. "No Funk, No Frivolity, No Fanaticism." New York Times, 6 May 1951, sec. SM, p. 4.

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Russell, Bertrand. The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell. Vol. 26. Routledge, 2020, pt. 1.