Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 10/23/03: Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Jacob Lawrence, "The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture No. 23" (1938) — Jacob Lawrence, *The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture No. 23. General L'Ouverture collected forces at Marmelade, and on October the 9th, 1794, left with 500 men to capture San Miguel.* (1938)

October 23, 2003:

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. Just when everything seems over with, new forces come marching up, and precisely that means that you are alive.

— Kafka, Diaries, 21 July 1913.