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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound

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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It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? – Cesare Pavese

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Imagination
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Will power is only the tensile strength of ones own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. – Cesare Pavese

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power
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love — any love — reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness. – Cesare Pavese

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Its a recession when your neighbor loses his job; its a depression when you lose your own. – Harry S Truman

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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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Depression is anger without enthusiasm – Anon.

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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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