“Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.”

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

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