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“The person suffering from loneliness anxiety is deeply suspicious. Even the slightest criticism hurts him. He often perceives non-existent deprecation in surface or tangential remarks. Because he feels such grave failure in everything he undertakes, because he constantly strives to raise his level of achievement and win praise and approval and at the same time employs devices and strategies which constantly alienate him from others, eventually he either gives up or responds with aggression to cover up his inner feeling of separation, anxiety, and despair.”
― Loneliness
― Loneliness
“May you not go around the world looking to fill what you fear you lack with the flesh of another human being.”
― Animal
― Animal
“The world had set me up to believe that it was women who went mad. It was simply women’s pain that manifested as madness.”
― Animal
― Animal
“All the world blurred, a vibrating hemorrhage, and it was fine because I could finally feel how little impact I’d ever have on the world. Losing that dread that one day you’ll somehow ruin everything, for yourself and everyone else. The realization that I could simply leave and the world wouldn’t miss me.”
― Negative Space
― Negative Space
“The basement and music had become this incomprehensible landscape threatening to split me open. Like meeting God finally and learning he hates you.”
― Negative Space
― Negative Space
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