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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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. – Cesare Pavese

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

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

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Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that its damn hard to smile. – Judith Guest

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Depression is anger without enthusiasm – Anon.

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A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. – Attributed to Heather Pryor

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