“Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.”
Kay Redfield Jamison (1946) American bipolar disorder researcher
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.”
— Nancy Mitford, book Christmas Pudding
Source: Christmas Pudding
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