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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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"Meditation is act of thinking purely."
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"And then things would be fine. Then I'd be fine."
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"No matter how bad your life gets if you Execute yourself it won't get better!"
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"Focus on beauty, not on feardance with stress to let it clear"
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"When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back."
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"There are days when I can hardly make it out of bed. I find it an effort to speak. I measure progress in steps, the next one and the next one, as far as the bathroom. These steps are major accomplishments. I focus on taking the cap off the toothpaste, getting the brush up to my mouth. I have difficulty lifting my arm to do even that. I feel I am without worth, that nothing I can do is of any value, least of all to myself."
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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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"Madness is witlessness's."
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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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"Madness is blackness."
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"I felt very happy. To think that I didn't have to torture myself sitting in a smoke-filled room with a painted party smile, watching my date get drunk."
Freedom
"Slowly I swam up from the bottom of a black sleep."
Healing
"Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call."
Humor
"Is there no way out of the mind?"
Philosophy
"I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives."
Humanity
"What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from."
Gender
"I may never be happy, but tonight I am content."
Peace
"I don't know what I ate, but I felt immensely better after the first mouthful. It occurred to me that my vision of the fig-tree and all the fat figs that withered and fell to the earth might well have arisen from the profound void of an empty stomach."
Perception
"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."
Desire
"Talking about my fears to others feeds it."
Emotion
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