Who said “So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not…”?

“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.”

“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”

“Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.”

“Action is the antidote to despair.”

“Despair gives courage to a coward.”

“Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.”

“No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.”

“Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.”

“It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.”

“When we speak the word ''life,'' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.”

“There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.”