"A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours."
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"In a mad world only the mad are sane."
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"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
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"Sanity is a cozy lie."
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"Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken."
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"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself."
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"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
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"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar."
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"Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said "On the line!" The Reconstruction said "Go!" I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep."
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"Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong."
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"There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him."
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"The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain."
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"Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different."
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"When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas."
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"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it."
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"Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm."
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"because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air."
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"No man is free who cannot control himself."
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"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm."
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"Depression is the inability to construct a future."
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