Charles BukowskiThat was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
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The lack of hope in a man’s heart is the most dangerous thing to him. What man ever reached success because he had hope? When a man has no hope it makes him an easy victim to those who have too much hope to lose. You have to have a little hope or you would never dare to stand up and try to better yourself. If you have no hope, you will never try to do something better.
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