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William Styron
06.11.1925 - 11.01.2006William Styron was an acclaimed novelist and essayist. Memoirs of depression.
"Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode."
— William Styron, Darkness Visible
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