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I believe very deeply that this beauty I call the soul is not a random occurrence. I don't know what its meaning is at some larger level, but I know that it has meaning.
Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.
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Sometimes, people end up thankful for what they mourned. You cannot achieve this state by seeking tragedy, but you can keep yourself open more to sorrow's richness than to unmediated despair. Tragedies with happy endings may be sentimental tripe, or they may be the true meaning of love.
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The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.
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