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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

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...Catholic versus Protestant, essentially. It's that kind of fight. ... And it goes on to this day. Will we never learn? Who knows? Religion. Shit it...more

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The uncomfortable, as well as the miraculous, fact about the human mind is how it varies from individual to individual. The process of treatment can t...more

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Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

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I used to think it utterly normal that I suffered from “suicidal ideation” on an almost daily basis. In other words, for as long as I can remember, th...more

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Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me...more

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Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the...more

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Anger fed him and clothed him and he owed it much.

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Nobody seems to understand that in such matters the tact and sympathy should come from the one who is about to die, not the poor bugger who has to tak...more

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Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not b...more