“Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.”
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“Depression is melancholy minus its charms.”
― Illness as Metaphor
― Illness as Metaphor
“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
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“Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.”
― Sula
― Sula
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