“Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.”
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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.