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I think about other things while she describes her recent past: air, water, sky, time, a moment, a point somewhere when I wanted to show her everything beautiful in the world.
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melancholia
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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Profound melancholia is a day-in, day-out, night-in, night-out, almost arterial level of agony.
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mental-illness
melancholia
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Kay Redfield Jamison |
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depression, when it finally came to me, was in fact no stranger, not even a visitor totally unannounced; it had been tapping at my door for decades.
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melancholia
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William Styron |
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It was not really alarming at first, since the change was subtle, but I did notice that my surroundings took on a different tone at certain times: the shadows of nightfall seemed more somber, my mornings were less buoyant, walks in the woods became less zestful, and there was a moment during my working hours in the late afternoon when a kind of panic and anxiety overtook me, just for a few minutes, accompanied by a visceral queasiness.
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depression
melancholia
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William Styron |
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The light is fading from the day. The rest is darkness and dismay.
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mortality
depression
melancholia
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Edward Gorey |