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• I am reminded of the importance of small kindnesses.

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• An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dream killers.

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• The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.

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• Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it.

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• Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.

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• The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.

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• One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.

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• Chaos and intensity are no substitute for lasting love, nor are they necessarily an improvement on real life.

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• Love has, at its best, made the inherent sadness of life bearable, and its beauty manifest.

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• Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy.

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• Love, like life, is much stranger and far more complicated than one is brought up to believe.

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• One of the advantages of science is that one’s work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.

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• Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

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Kay Redfield Jamison (13)

Birth:	22nd June, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Professor, Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Writer

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