"The true opposite of depression is not gaiety or absence of pain, but vitality: the freedom to experience spontaneous feelings."

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I have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of 'inspiration,' and all that: but I have also found that sitting down, however reluctantly, with the pen in my hand, I have never worked for one quarter of an hour without finding myself in full train.

— Harriet Martineau