Andrew Solomon quote: Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You ...

Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true," and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.

~ Andrew Solomon ~

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