"Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness."
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"If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again."
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"Most unmarried Somali girls who got pregnant committed suicide. I knew of one girl in Mogadishu who poured a can of gasoline over herself in the living room, with everyone there, and burned herself alive. Of course, if she hadn't done this, her father and brothers would probably have killed her anyway."
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"But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect."
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"All stories, if continued far enough, end in death."
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"Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing."
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"Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide."
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"I tried to commit suicide because I sacrificed everything for Hitler. And that man whom we sacrificed everything for left us all alone. If he had committed suicide four years before, it would have been all right."
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"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty."
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"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
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"In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, Get back to who you were meant to be. This is the heart spot, the center. Your whole life the skin on that place will stay closest to being a baby's skin, as close as you can get anymore to the way you started, the way you once thought you'd always be."
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"Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way."
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"No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide."
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"All healthy men have thought of their own suicide"
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"My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent."
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"He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian."
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"God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through my veins, and the air thick and gray with rain ... I fell into bed again this morning, begging for sleep, withdrawing into the dark, warm, fetid escape from action, from responsibility. No good."
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"Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help) that I should have gone on living my full complement of days, is assuredly a prodigy among men quite capable of tranquilly urging the Emperor to open a fruit shop."
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"Sun, I come to see you for the last time."
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"The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide."
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