“There are occasions … when all consolation is base and it is a duty to despair.”

—  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, book Elective Affinities

Es gibt Fälle, ... wo jeder Trost niederträchtig und Verzweiflung Pflicht ist.
Bk. I, Ch. 18, R. J. Hollingdale, trans. (1971), p. 147
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