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"There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics."
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"Depression comes from not accepting the way things are - and seeing no way too change them."
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"Yes I'm Bipolar but I'm as normal as you except the times when my mind thinks like two."
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"Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic."
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"I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it."
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"You think you're losing your mind, but do keep in mind, as long as you may, that the ability to go on thinking such a thing means it's not all gone."
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"I count everything. Even numbers, odd numbers, multiples of 10. I count the ticks of the clock i count the tocks of the clock I count the lines between the lines on a sheet of paper. I count the broken beats of my heart I count my pulse and my blinks and the number of tries it takes to inhale enough oxygen for my lungs. I stay like this I stand like this I count like this until the feeling stops. Until the tears stop spilling, until my fists stop shaking, until my heart stops aching. There are never enough numbers."
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"I was afraid to let other make any decisions, because I had no confidence they would be concerned for me."
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"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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"Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong."
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"I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life."
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"Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know."
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"Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness."
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"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
Life
"Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives."
Love
"I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race-I am ashamed to belong to such a species."
Emotion
"Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom."
Time
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
People
"It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion."
Religion
"There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male except his superior muscle."
Equality
"Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so."
Work
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