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Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes

born 1946 United States

Kay Redfield Jamison (born 14 October 1946) is a world-renowned psychologist who is an expert on bipolar disorder, from which she herself suffers.

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If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kay Redfield Jamison (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.