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The pleasure of despair. But then, it is in despair that we find the most acute pleasure, especially when we are aware of the hopelessness of the situation... ...everything is a mess in which it is impossible to tell what's what, but that despite this impossibility and deception it still hurts you, and the less you can understand, the more it hurts.
Fyodor DostoevskyRead
Be realistic, demand the impossible!
Che GuevaraRead
But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about something that was impossible. I knew my limits; I knew how much suffering i could bear.
Paulo CoelhoRead
It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.
Wendell BerryRead
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
Ayn RandRead
At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.
Che GuevaraRead
The Ogre does what ogres can,_x000D_ Deeds quite impossible for Man,_x000D_ But one prize is beyond his reach,_x000D_ The Ogre cannot master Speech:_x000D_ About a subjugated plain,_x000D_ Among its desperate and slain,_x000D_ The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,_x000D_ While drivel gushes from his lips.
W. H. AudenRead
I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.
Vladimir NabokovRead
After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.
Richard RussoRead
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
Ray BradburyRead
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.
David AttenboroughRead
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
Simone WeilRead
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
Swami VivekanandaRead
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
Mark TwainRead
You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
Harry S. TrumanRead
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.
Alexis De TocquevilleRead
All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
Jules VerneRead
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity
Christopher HitchensRead
It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Israel. If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we are liable to lose it all. Everything. That is where the extremist path takes us.
Ariel SharonRead
It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire.
Martin LutherRead
The cynic thinks that he is being practical and that the hopeful person is not. It is actually the other way around. Cynicism is paralyzing, while the naïve person tries what the cynic says is impossible and sometimes succeeds.
Charles EisensteinRead

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