"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"
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"There's nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo mallet can't cure."
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"Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise."
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"Every man has his secret sorrows."
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"I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual torture."
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"To perceive is to suffer."
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"Depression is rage spread thin."
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"I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace."
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"I'm tired of pretending that everything's fine just so I can please everyone else."
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"Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave."
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"I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full."
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"There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a low level of despair you live in. Where you're not getting any answers, but you're living OK. And you can smile at the office. You know? But it's a low level of despair. I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever. I had to get off at a certain point because I realized that, you know, everything's just OK."
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"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give."
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"Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively."
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"In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. ... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love."
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"Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm."
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"There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least a faint, morbid urge to jump. And anyone who has ever put a loaded pistol up to his head... All right, my point is this: even the most well-adjusted person is holding onto his or her sanity by a greased rope. I really believe that. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal."
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"I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does."
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"What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show."
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"Manic depression's touching my soul. I know what I want, but I just don't know how to go about getting it."
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