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"Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable."
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"Our ages ranged from 22, down to 18, and we had a 6 month contract to go to Bogata, Columbia. And of course, it was during the depression, we were still with our parents, and things were still pretty tough on them back in the United States."
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Personal Development
"I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression."
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"We'll take up where we left off, Esther', she had said, with her sweet martyr's smile. 'We'll act as if all this were a bad dream.' A bad dream. To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.A bad dream. I remembered everything."
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Personal Development
"You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it."
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Personal Development
"There isn't any doubt I'm stuck in stress and depression."
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Personal Development
"We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression."
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Personal Development
"In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage."
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Personal Development
"The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower."
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Personal Development
"I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2."
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Personal Development
"It's like you asked me about the depression thing: you grope towards an understanding of whatever it is your going through, and it's not personal, there are forces in play around you, and you seek to understand them and that way you can go on."
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"It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation."
Man
"I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result."
Self-Awareness
"We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens."
Nothing
"We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive."
Work
"It's very hard to know what wisdom is."
Wisdom
"Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it."
Man
"Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable."
Depression
"It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it."
Imagination
"We can't change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently."
Change
"The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?"
Power
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