"It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self loathing- they are not all bad. Those devils have also been my angels. Without them I would not have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that have made and unmade me."

Stephen Fry (writing in Moab Is My Washpot)  (via lowqu0tations)

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