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"I am drowning in negativism, self-hate, doubt, madness - and even I am not strong enough to deny the routine, the rote, to simplify. No, I go plodding on, afraid that the blank hell in back of my eyes will break through, spewing forth like a dark pestilence; afraid that the disease which eats away the pith of my body with merciless impersonality will break forth in obvious sores and warts, screaming "Traitor, sinner, imposter."
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"When they speak of Hell there's something they miss there's a worse place to be and it's called the Abyss."
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Personal Development
"I've learned that the most depressed people always seem to be the happiest."
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"We see her go through dangerous mood-swings, but I tried never to come right out and say "Annie was depressed and possibly suicidal that day" or "Annie seemed particularly happy that day."If I have to tell you, I lose. If, on the other hand, I can show you a silent, dirty-haired woman who compulsively gobbles cake and candy, then have you draw the conclusion that Annie is in the depressive part of a manic-depressive cycle, I win."
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"In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free?"
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"Refuse anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next with pre-judgement."
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"Everyone had a dirty, little secret that is never spoken out loud to anyone. Which is another way of saying people are never what they seem."
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"I'm afraid to see a psychiatrist about the voices in my head. She might know who they are."
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"Meditation is act of thinking purely."
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"Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition."
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"Meditation nourishes the mind."
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"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."
Writing
"I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here."
Emotion
"This boy - his name was Eric - said he thought it disgusting the way all the girls at my college stood around on the porches under the porch lights and in the bushes in plain view, necking madly before the one o'clock curfew, so everybody passing by could see them. A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals."
Society
"Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master."
Expression
"I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree."
Imagination
"I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself."
Loneliness
"The main point of the article was that a man's world is different from a women's world and a man's emotions are different from a women's emotions and only marriage can bring the two worlds and the two different sets of emotions together properly."
Marriage
"I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it."
Education
"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
Creativity
"I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives."
Humanity
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