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I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.

Andrew Solomon

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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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Clinical Psychologist
Journalist
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I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.
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All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.
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I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.
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I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!
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I understand why there would be prohibitions on straying from monogamy because of the harm that it does not only to the person who is betrayed, but also to the person who is betraying. Betray is a sort of shorthand for what happens.
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I don't understand what the nature of God is. But I do have the feeling that I'm at some feet, and lucky to be there.
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I would certainly not want my child to be schizophrenic. I wouldn't want him or her to be a criminal either. If, on the other hand, I had a deaf child, it would help that I have developed a real admiration for Deaf culture.
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The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.
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There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures. The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.
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The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
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Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come.
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We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.
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When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history.
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Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.
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Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.
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I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
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The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.
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I found myself losing interest in almost everything, I didn't want to do any of the things I had previously wanted to do and I didn't know why. Everything there was to do seemed like too much work. The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.
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I think a lot of the time people assume that their values are universal. And they don't understand which aspects of their values are actually universal and which aspects are very specific.
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