“I have been clinically depressed for most of my life. I once used drugs to fix it. Then I stopped. I stopped because I decided they were making me stupid, and I’d rather be miserable than stupid. I am what I am.”
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Neal Stephenson
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book
Seveneves
“Cleft” (pp. 560-561)
Seveneves (2015), Part Two
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