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If I didn’t have this condition at all, I would miss a world. This is a very common response in people with bipolar disorder, as Stephen Fry illustrated in his documentary The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive, when he asked each ...more
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John   Waters
“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
John Waters

Joseph Conrad
“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Rainer Maria Rilke
“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
Rainer Maria Rilke

Lemony Snicket
“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

Friedrich Nietzsche
“One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

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