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““When you have spent long years in the dark, there is joy in seeing the light and pleasure, above all, in the ordinary.””

Sally Brampton

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“Killing oneself is, anyway, a misnomer. We don't kill ourselves. We are simply defeated by the long, hard struggle to stay alive. When somebody…

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“I would not wish depression on anybody. And yet, it taught me a lot. I have not become suddenly mawkishly grateful for my life…

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As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence.

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