"I had always thought of myself as fairly……" — Andrew Solomon
"I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry."
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60 Quotes by Andrew Solomon
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Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical…
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Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it.…
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When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history.…
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