
The Noonday Demon

bound by the sides of a triangle: the
Andrew Solomon • The Noonday Demon
They need to go together: by themselves pills are a weak poison, love a blunt knife, insight a rope that snaps under too much strain. With the lot of them, if you are lucky, you can save the tree from the vine.
Andrew Solomon • The Noonday Demon
To be or not to be? There is no other subject about which so much has been written and about which so little has been said. Hamlet proposes that the decision may rest on that “undiscover’d country from whose bourn no traveller returns.” And yet men who do not fear the unknown, who gladly venture into territories of strange experience, do not so gla
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In Nepal, when an elephant has a splinter or spike in his foot, his drivers put chilli in one of his eyes, and the elephant becomes so preoccupied with the pain of the chilli that he stops paying attention to the pain in his foot, and people can remove the spike without being trampled to death (and in a fairly short time, the chilli washes out of h
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Therapy and medication are the most accessible treatments for depression, but another system has helped many people to cope with their illness, and that is faith. Human consciousness may be seen
Andrew Solomon • The Noonday Demon
successful relationships are usually partnerships in which power can be passed back
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druthers,
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It was just a way to make the internal tragedy of my desires into a physical reality.
Andrew Solomon • The Noonday Demon
activated depression