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What is courage? this courage will not be the opposite of despair. we shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. hence kierkegaard and nietzsche and camus and sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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What Is Courage? This Courage Will Not

Rollo May
What is courage? this courage will not be the opposite of despair. we shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. hence kierkegaard and nietzsche and camus and sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
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