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To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
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Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too saturated with it not partly to excuse it.
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We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
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Born:
April 15, 1858
Died:
November 15, 1917
(aged 59)
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