“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.”

—  Andrew Solomon, book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

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