Quote by Cesare Pavese
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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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be. – Cesare Pavese

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This is my depressed stance. When youre depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then youll start to feel better. If youre going to get any joy out of being depressed, youve got to stand like this. – Charles Monroe Schulz

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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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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape. – Leonard Cohen

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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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I just hate it when Buddhists get all emptier-than-thou. – John Fugelsang

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If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what youre going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money. – Russell Simmons

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The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a persons standing in the political community. – Sandra Day OConnor

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