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The tedium of existence and feeling imprisoned in a deplorable job can cause a person to consider the most expedient escape route from suffering including flirting with suicide. Fernando Pessoa wrote in "The Book of Disquiet" of his own feelings of uneasiness and sense of discouragement. "I suffer from life and from other people. I cannot look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, w..
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suicide
suffering
depression-quotes
discontentment
suffering-quote
suffering-quotes
tedium
suicidal-thoughts
discouragement
discontent
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Philosophic thoughts allow people to use human reason and imagination to consider eternal matters and explore the ramifications of their own transience. American author Joan Didion postulated that we tell ourselves stories in order to live. Conceivably a personal crisis propels a person to delve into creating a guiding philosophy for living with reduced mental and emotional turmoil. Alternatively, perhaps we tell stories to examine, explain..
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story
story-of-life
story-of-my-life
story-of-your-life
writing-memoir
telling-stories
story-of-a-soul
memoir-writing
storytelling
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Kilroy J. Oldster |
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Art consist of a writer or painter's psychosis extirpated on the canvas of his choosing, a truism whether one is inspecting a Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece or deciphering the incomprehensible utterings and dissociated ramblings of one of the Philistines framed in the picaresque novel 'Confederacy of Dunces, written by American novelist John Kennedy Toole (1937-1969).
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writing
memoir-writing
writers-voice
writing-style
essayist
writers-on-writing
writing-philosophy
writers-quotes
writing-process
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Kilroy J. Oldster |