“Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.”
Source: Six Years
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“I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return.”
Last words in her diary (July 1954)
1946 - 1953
“Gone for a while
Hoping, always, to return
If you will let me”
Source: Perfect Fifths

Source: Interview. Torreblanca, M. E. Entrevista al escritor José Baroja. Fondo de Cultura Económica. https://www.fondodeculturaeconomica.com/Noticia/706

“There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature (1963)
Context: Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future. A good many people are working on the mathematical basis of quantum theory, trying to understand the theory better and to make it more powerful and more beautiful. If someone can hit on the right lines along which to make this development, it may lead to a future advance in which people will first discover the equations and then, after examining them, gradually learn how to apply them.