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"Depression comes from not accepting the way things are - and seeing no way too change them."
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"Write something even if it's just a suicide note."

"We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use."

"Many so-called disorders of the mind are simply disorders of thought."

"Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment."

"When people call it that I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you just get like really sad, you get quiet and melancholy and just like sit quietly by the window sighing or just lying around. A state of not caring about anything. A kind of blue kind of peaceful state."

"It is horrible being all alone."

"The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain."

"It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary."

"To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death."

"I know that things get worse before they get better because that's what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big."
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"After making love there is nothing like making love, slowly, idly, like walking without a destination, or swimming in a warm sea."

"There was a monster in me that had to be fed by success. There is a monster in us all that has to be fed by something."

"The moment he left the warm sheets and the door clicked shut, I had that feeling you get when you are lost in a strange town at night. I curled into the chair where he had watched me undress and tears wet my cheeks. Then I dried my eyes, I looked in the mirror, and I said these two words. Never again."

"The erotic is not about nudity and nudity is rarely erotic. The erotic is subtle, a feeling, a gesture, a mood, a story frozen in the moment that holds you breathless waiting for the next moment. Understand this, and you understand the erotic."

"Beautiful girls " the true beauties " are rarely vain, arrogant, poseurs. It is the girl who makes disproportionate efforts with makeup, clothes, heels and hair who suffers these conceits. They are girls who have made themselves appear beautiful without ever reaching the exalted status of being beautiful girls."

"Perfection is not something you strive for. Perfection is in the eyes of the beholder. Perfection is a state of grace, of peace of serenity, a moment as fleeting as a smile."

"While love lasts it should be relished, gobbled up like ice cream, explored as the conquistadors explored the unknown continent. But when love evaporates, when love hurts, we must learn to let go of the idea that love is forever."

"When it happens it happens instantly. It's like diving into a pool of warm silky water, like flying through the air on invisible wings, like shedding an old skin and growing a new one. When you fall in love the spirals of your DNA unwind and rewind in the opposite direction. What was black becomes white."

"Literature is the question without the answer. Philosophy is the answer without the question."
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