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William Faulkner: A Critical Study

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Untying the Knot: John Mark Byers and the West Memphis Three by Greg Day

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“Schopenhauer, philosophy’s reigning pessimist, wrote, “Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.”
― Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us

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“One of the most common terms applied to such states of anxiety is “free-floating anxiety.” As we shall see”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

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“Depressed patients have a special penchant for expecting future adversities and experiencing them as though they were happening in the present or had already occurred.”
― Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders

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“LOW SELF-ESTEEM AND SELF-CRITICISMS”
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