Quote#Hope
It cannot be hard for you to understand how the war has destroyed in…
Quote byMay Ziadeh · 1886–1941
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter (February 1916).
English (original)
It cannot be hard for you to understand how the war has destroyed in our glowing souls beliefs we thought eternal and how it has injured whatever hopes we had, the greatest and most splendid hopes. Tell me: if we despair of progress, we who have dedicated to it all our thoughts and spiritual energy, what can we hope for? And where can we search for a base on which to build the palaces of hope?
— May Ziadeh
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