"Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers"
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"Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life."
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"Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction. Criticism drove Thomas Chatterton, the English poet, to suicide. . . . Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving."
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"Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only."
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"Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man."
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"I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers."
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"Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin."
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"While his history of depression is compatible with suicide... and the location and direction of the stab wounds are consistent with self-infliction, several aspects of the circumstances (as they are known at this time) are atypical of suicide and raise the possibility of homicide."
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"Suicide is not an answer, it's destruction."
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"Life's too short for a funeral."
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"The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids."
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"Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before."
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"Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home."
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"Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?"
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"Nothing shall warp me from the belief that every man is a lover of truth. There is no pure lie, no pure malignity in nature. The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation. There is no skepticism, no atheism but that. Could it be received into common belief, suicide would unpeople the planet."
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"It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself... Life is God's gift to man, and is subject to His power, Who kills and makes to live. Hence whoever takes his own life, sins against God... for it belongs to God alone to pronounce sentence of death and life."
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"In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'."
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"I like to look on the bright side: Every day I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive."
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"The only good that I can see in the demonstration of the truth of "Spiritualism" is to furnish an additional argument against suicide. Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a séance."
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"Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest"
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