Andrew Solomon
1963
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Quotes
Biography
Andrew Solomon is an American writer and lecturer known for his award-winning books on politics, psychology, and culture. He was born in 1963 in New York City and studied at Yale University. Solomon's work often explores topics such as mental health, identity, and human resilience. His best-selling book 'The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression' won numerous awards including the National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Famous Quotes (5)
1
You can't ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.
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It's life that matters; nothing but life—the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.
3
The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality.
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The hardest aspect of grief to understand is that it is not an illness. It is more like an amputation.
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Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future.