Quote by Susan Sontag
Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fi

Depression is melancholy minus its charms — the animation, the fits. – Susan Sontag

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Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. – Susan Sontag

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. – Susan Sontag

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Volume depends precisely on the writers having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. – Susan Sontag

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He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan. – Alain de Botton

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Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing despite its detachment from the nourishing earth. It can be described only in metaphor and allegory – Andrew Solomon

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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. – Cesare Pavese

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In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love. – Soren Kierkegaard

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