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Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed.
Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed.
Approximate author period: c. 1985 AD · modern
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- Sally Brampton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1985 AD · modern
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Sally Brampton, based on documented lifetime 1955 to 2016. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24050304 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24050304 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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