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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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Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life — its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness — conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. – Susan Sontag

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Excess
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To take a photograph is to participate in another persons mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to times relentless melt. – Susan Sontag

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Depression
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The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop. – Eric Hoffer

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Depression

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. – John Keats

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Depression

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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Depression

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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