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To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.

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Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.

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The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.

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Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.

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Mood disorders are terribly painful illnesses, and they are isolating illnesses. And they make people feel terrible about themselves when, in fact, they can be treated.

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Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers. . . Restlessness and discontent are vital things. . . Intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways less intense emotions can never do.

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But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so.

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