Quote by William Styron
Reading — the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at

Reading — the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. – William Styron

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In depression…faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no rememdy will come, not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. – William Styron

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Depression
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The madness of depression is the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained. – William Styron

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Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. – William Styron

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This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. – Elbert Hubbard

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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. – James Bryce

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant. – Voltaire

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Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge — they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely. – Vissarion Belinsky

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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it. – John Naisbitt

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It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. – Bertrand Russell, Principles of Social Reconstruction, 1917

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One of the best things that ever happened to me is that Im a woman. That is the way all females should feel. – Marilyn Monroe

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The EU is not a country and its not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together. – William Hague

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