"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
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"Just remember that the darkest night did not turn out all the stars."
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"Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well."
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"I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep."
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"There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else."
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"What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."
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"When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind."
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"I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that."
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"The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it."
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"The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings."
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"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
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"Depression is inertia."
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"Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night."
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"I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression."
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"I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure but the solitary communion with the 'mountains & the woods'-the 'altars' of Byron. I have thus rambled and dreamed away whole months, and awake, at last, to a sort of mania for composition. Then I scribble all day, and read all night, so long as the disease endures."
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"Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
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"... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst of all, not wanting to cope. You saw visions of yourself in a straightjacket, and a drain on the family, murdering your mother in actuality, killing the edifice of love and respect built up over the years in the hearts of other people."
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"One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best."
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"Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?"
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"Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is."
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