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Do you even know who the enemy is? I think... it's me.

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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Enemy
Even
Think
Thinking

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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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So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live.
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The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.
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If you can't get out of bed for long enough, people come and take your bed away
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I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous.
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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'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?
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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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Nobody had told me I was common.
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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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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.
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The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.
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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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