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Pearl S. Buck

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

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Living without hope means that even basic survival lacks true nourishment or fulfillment. Without something to look forward to, merely existing feels like a slow form of dying inside.

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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.