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“The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.”
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“Sometimes suicide isn't just an action, its a choice in the back of the mind to save themselves from themselves.”
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“However great a man's fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance -- so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamor to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.”
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“The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort; with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.”
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“The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage”
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“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”
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“We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live.”
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“Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.”
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“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
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