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Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself it is the only thing in all creation that is not entirely at the mercy of forces outside itself.
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Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own way be even more intense.
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