Émile Durkheim - Suicide (1897)

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Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought.

Émile Durkheim

The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result

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Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

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