Depression is the absence of hope.
J. K. ROWLINGWhen people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
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You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just exist as an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever, lost.
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You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
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Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don’t think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.
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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.
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We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
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The ones that love us never really leave us.
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Sometimes you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while.
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First sign of madness, talking to your own head.
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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.
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