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“Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with childhood trauma.p55”
― Interviewer's Guide to the Structured Clinical Interview for Dsm-IV Dissociative Disorders
― Interviewer's Guide to the Structured Clinical Interview for Dsm-IV Dissociative Disorders
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
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“You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”
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“Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance.”
― In Search of Lost Time, Vol 6: Time Regained and A Guide to Proust
― In Search of Lost Time, Vol 6: Time Regained and A Guide to Proust
“You said how Michelangelo was a manic-depressive who portrayed himself as a flayed martyr in his painting. Henri Matisse gave up being a lawyer because of appendicitis. Robert Schumann only began composing after his right hand became paralyzed and ended his career as a concert pianist. (...) You talked about Nietzsche and his tertiary syphilis. Mozart and his uremia. Paul Klee and the scleroderma that shrank his joints and muscles to death. Frida Kahlo and the spina bifida that covered her legs with bleeding sores. Lord Byron and his clubfoot. The Bronte sisters and their tuberculosis. Mark Rothko and his suicide. Flannery O’Connor and her lupus. Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.
“According to Thomas Mann,” Peter said, “‘Great artists are great invalids.”
― Diary
“According to Thomas Mann,” Peter said, “‘Great artists are great invalids.”
― Diary
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