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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
Even
Think
Thinking
Enemy

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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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It's such a silly little thing, the heart.
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I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
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I don't- I shake my head. (...) What? What were you going to say? This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.
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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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