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“Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.”
― Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
― Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
“The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.”
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“At heart, I have always been a coper, I've mostly been able to walk around with my wounds safely hidden, and I've always stored up my deep depressive episodes for the weeks off when there was time to have an abbreviated version of a complete breakdown. But in the end, I'd be able to get up and on with it, could always do what little must be done to scratch by.”
― Prozac Nation
― Prozac Nation
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it?”
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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