"In our culture, futility plays the role of transgression and fashion is condemned for having within it the force of the pure sign which signifies nothing."

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The worst thing about depression isn't the sense that you're accentuating the negative, it's that you're seeing things the way they really are, stripped of the illusions you use every day to divert yourself from the Yawning Maw of Futility. It's the wind that blows off the snow and reveals the stone.

— James Lileks