An individual in despair despairs over something.... In despairing over something, he really despairs over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. Consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper.... To despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneselfthis is the formula for all despair.
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No grand inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused, as anxiety does, which never lets him escape...
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So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to dieyet not as though there were hope of life no, the hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope, death, is not available. When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one's hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die.
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I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a higher unity in our common stupidity.
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The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase the greater the degree of consciousness, the more intensive the despair. This is everywhere apparent, most clearly in despair at its maximum and minimum. The devil's despair is the most intensive despair, for the devil is sheer spirit and hence unqualified consciousness and transparency there is no obscurity in the devil that could serve as a mitigating excuse. Therefore, his despair is the most absolute defiance....
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And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.
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