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The pain of depression is qui...

The pain of depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain.

William Styron 73 quotes

I felt the exultancy of a man...

I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.

William Styron 73 quotes

Many of the artifacts of my h...

Many of the artifacts of my house had become potential devices for my own destruction: the attic rafters (and an outside maple or two) a means to hang myself, the garage a place to inhale carbon monoxide, the bathtub a vessel to receive the flow from my opened arteries. The kitchen knives in their drawers had but one purpose for me.

William Styron 73 quotes

A great book should leave you ...

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

William Styron 73 quotes

The good writing of any age ha...

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

William Styron 73 quotes

The madness of depression is, ...

The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.

William Styron 73 quotes

my brain had begun to endure i...

my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.

William Styron 73 quotes

Reading - the best state yet t...

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

William Styron 73 quotes

Mysteriously and in ways that ...

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

William Styron 73 quotes

In depression . . . faith in d...

In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come - - not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

William Styron 73 quotes

A great book should leave you ...

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

William Styron 73 quotes

We would have to settle for th...

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

William Styron 73 quotes

Let's face it, writing is hell...

Let's face it, writing is hell.

William Styron 73 quotes

A disruption of the circadian ...

A disruption of the circadian cycleЂ'the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday lifeЂ'seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each day's pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief.

William Styron 73 quotes

I think it's unfortunate to ha...

I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.

William Styron 73 quotes

The mornings themselves were b...

The mornings themselves were becoming bad now as I wandered
about lethargic, following my synthetic sleep, but afternoons were
still the worst, beginning at about three o'clock, when I'd feel the
horror, like some poisonous fog bank roll in upon my mind, forcing me
into bed.

William Styron 73 quotes

Depression...so mysteriously p...

Depression...so mysteriously painful and elusive...

William Styron 73 quotes

I felt a kind of numbness, an ...

I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become frail, hypersensitive and somehow disjointed and clumsy, lacking normal coordination. And soon I was in the throes of a pervasive hypochondria.

William Styron 73 quotes

It is hopelessness even more t...

It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

William Styron 73 quotes

Wickedly funny to read and mor...

Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.

William Styron 73 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....