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“It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.”

Book:You are Not a Stranger Here

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You are Not a Stranger Here

This book delves into the complexities of human connection and the search for a sense of place in the world. more

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Adam Haslett

Adam Haslett is an American fiction writer born on December 24, 1970. His works are known for their profound psychological insights and focus on social issues. more

“Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And-how many of us do know it? ... Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses-what do they think? All these hundreds of thousands in this city, here. Do they imagine that they live in a sane world? Or do they guess, glimpse, the truth...?”

Source: Four novels of the 1960s

“Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon, its focus on the self preventing any other from really counting? Perhaps. Sometimes. Sometimes, even when we are two we are really only one; we can feel nothing but our own bones, our own difficult breaths.”

Feels Mind Two Self Sometimes Difficult Focus Depression Ethics Roots Breaths Crisis Illness Bones Mental Illness Phenomenon Overwhelming Counting Preventing Psychiatric

Author:Lauren Slater

“Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.”

Dark Secret Crazy Broken Depression Illness Mental Illness Interrupted Swallowing Being Broken Dark Secrets Girl Interrupted Darkest Secrets

Author:Winona Ryder

“As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.”

Moments Shows Pleasure Special Produce Photography Cameras Photographer Photograph Simplicity Something Special Camera And Photography Capturing A Moment Photography

Author:Sam Abell

“Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places.”

Ifs Way Long Doe Seems Long Time Hospitals Visitors

Author:Pedro Almodovar

“To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that’s a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores.”

Firsts Bits Records Bigger Shame Disappear Stores Labels Shock Demise Record Stores

Author:Phil Collins

“What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is radically estranged from the structure of being.”

Action Form Products Depression Normal Structure Illness Mental Illness Denial Destructive Projection Repression Splitting

Author:R. D. Laing

“Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.”

Ifs Courses Circumstances Depression Illness Mental Illness Neurotic Needy Paranoid Psychotic

Book:Seize The Night

Source: Seize The Night

“One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocence self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.”

Thinking Humans Stills Soul Self Dream Seems Individual Depression Illness Mental Illness Mysterious Innocence Acknowledge Spite Jurisdiction Self Will Mysterious Things

Author:Herman Melville

“There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.”

Depression Illness Mental Illness Troublesome Inexplicable Streaks Diabolical Perversity

Book:Torture Garden

Source: Torture Garden

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