Andrew Solomon Short Quotes

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We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it.

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It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.

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Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.

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Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger,

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Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

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I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

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Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

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I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.

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People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.

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I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

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I think all love is one-third projection and one-third acceptance and never more than one-third knowledge and insight.

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The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.

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I started this book to forgive my parents and ended it by becoming a parent. Understanding backward liberated me to live forward.

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Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.

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Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.

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A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

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If one imagines a soul of iron that weathers with grief and rusts with mild depression, then major depression is the startling collapse of the whole structure.

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Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

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Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.

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In the subconscious fantasies that make conception look so alluring, it is often ourselves that we would like to see live forever, not someone with a personality of his own.

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