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Nobody had told me I was common.

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
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New York City
New York
Nobody
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Common

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That's the number one thing I hear about humans. You have all these choices, so you're confused all the time, and you think so much that you're never happy.
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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.
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See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.
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its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself
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People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.
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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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Depression starts slow.
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What am I always going to do? I'm going to go home and freak out.I'm going to sit with my family and try not to talk about myself and what's wrong. Im going to try and eat. Then I'm going to try and sleep. I dread it. I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?
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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.
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I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
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No, mom says, looking at me in the eyes. What's a triumph is that you woke up this morning and decided to LIVE. THAT'S a triumph. that's what you did today.
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I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.
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Some of the most profound truths about us are things that we stop saying in the middle.
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But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.
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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.
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Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.
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I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.
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