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Kruger and Dunning's finding also calls to mind the quotation from Soren Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death that serves as the epigraph to Walker Percy's novel The Moviegoer : "[T]he specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair."
A piece argues that smaller schools might be an antidote to the gargantuan high schools where adolescents anonymously drift into deep trouble and despair.
Later, according to the Newsweek book, Stephanopoulos, James Carville, and Mandy Grunwald were so demoralized by Clinton's lack of candor that they crashed on a bed together, "too numb with fatigue and despair to speak."
Do not despair."
His private pictures from the time include some classics, but they are classics of despair.