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Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.
Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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