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The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.
Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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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 opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.
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If you are married and you go off and have an affair with someone, if you are a husband who does that, it may potentially hurt your wife enormously. But it seems to me likely also to compromise your marriage. That seems to me to be a harm.
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The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.
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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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