understood terrible thing life complete hopelessness… cross ‘maybes’ — Orlando Figes, Send Word: A True Story Love Survival Gulag

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I understood that the most terrible thing in life is complete hopelessness… To cross out all the 'maybes' and give up the fight when you still have strength for it is the most terrible form of suicide. It's almost unbearable to watch it happening in others. Unjustified hope – salvation for the weak in spirit and intellect – irritates me. But the loss of hope is the paralysis, even the death, of the soul. Sveta, let us hope, while we still have strength to hope.

Orlando Figes, Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag

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