"Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent……" — Andrew Solomon
"Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come."
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60 Quotes by Andrew Solomon
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