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Ned Vizzini
Age: 32 †
Born: 1981
Born: April 4
Died: 2013
Died: December 19
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New York City
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You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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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 didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.
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(...) Since I was a kid. Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.' Right.
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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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That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done.
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That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.
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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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Nobody had told me I was common.
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It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore all of a sudden it wants to do.
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And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
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I was never big on rage.' 'Why?' It's so much more angry in my head than it could ever be outside.
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One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.
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I just want to not be me.
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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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A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.
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And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.
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Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer for why I'm depressed.
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A working brain is probably a lot like a map, where anybody can get from one place to another on the freeways. It's the nonworking brains that get blocked, that have dead ends, that are under construction like mine.
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