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“For many who are alone, because their partner has died or they have separated from them, a sudden, unfamiliar emptiness is the order of the day. This can quickly turn into the thought of supposed uselessness and, not uncommonly, depressive moods. People without partners, whether wanted or unwanted, experience loneliness in a similarly desperate way. They all associate with a basic feeling, which is often called a “belief pattern” in psychology: Something is wrong with me, because…”
― Janett Menzel, About the Art of Being Alone & Single: How to overcome loneliness and the fear of being alone +++ 70 strategies & ways to become happy alone +++

“Eventually Porter developed a routine and would bring in two to 10 decision memos for him to sign each day. Trump liked signing. It meant he was doing things, and he had an up-and-down penmanship that looked authoritative in black Magic Marker.”
― Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House

“If I only could explain
How much I miss
that precious moment
when I was free
from the shackles of chronic pain.”
― Jenni Johanna Toivonen

“Another reptilian brain disguised as a modest mouse in the rat race.”
― Alexander Akyna, $O$