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"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."
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"I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows how well within my skin. Yet the soul maintains its deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds."
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"What's the use? The people are too stupid. They do not understand."
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"There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation."
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"Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power."
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"Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands."
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"Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class."
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"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."
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"The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape."
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"In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms and kiss it. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad."
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"The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?"
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"Work is always an antidote to depression."
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"Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad."
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"I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds."
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"The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse."
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"Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another."
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"The only thing that feeling bad accomplishes is to plummet you into anxiety, despair, depression, and stress. In such situations, ask yourself in that moment what THOUGHT you can have that will make you feel GOOD!"
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"The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God."
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"What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?"
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