February 2012
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January 2012
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“In the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham,...”
– Max Ehrmann, Desiderata
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“Alas, after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face.”
– Albert Camus, The Fall
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“‘No one has interfered with my freedom; my life has drained it dry.’...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason
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“‘Life was not going fast enough in me, I am speeding it up. The curve was...”
– Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, Will O’ the Wisp
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“Away! I’ll die as I have lived—alone.”
– Lord Byron, Manfred
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“Suicide is the means of men whose resilience has been eaten away by rust, the...”
– Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, Will O’ the Wisp
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“Thou hast no power upon me, that I feel;
Thou never shalt possess me, that I...”
– Lord Byron, Manfred
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“Pity, and smiles, and tears—which I had not;
And tenderness—but that I had for...”
– Lord Byron, Manfred
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“O your life, your lonely life
What have you ever done with it,
And done with...”
– Delmore Schwartz, All Night, All Night
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“Look on me! There is an order
Of mortals on the earth, who do become
Old in...”
– Lord Byron, Manfred
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“On the one hand, though life is what I want, there is something I want more than...”
– Mencius
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“Their world is closed to me, decidedly closed. And it is there that women are....”
– Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, Will O’ the Wisp
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“When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not...”
– Yamamoto Tsunetomo, The Hagakure
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Anonymous asked: Why do you think people like things that make them sad?
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“For life itself is no solution, life has no kind of existence which is chosen,...”
– Antonin Artaud, On Suicide
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“Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others,...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Love
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“All the other officers have two or three children by now and they read letters...”
– Yukio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
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“The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.”
– Norman Mailer, Cannibals and Christians
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“An old tree grows on a cold rock in winter,” replied the monk somewhat...”
– Zen koan
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“The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love,...”
– Albert Camus, The Rebel
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“We are the fools of time and terror: Days
Steal on us and steal from us; yet we...”
– Lord Byron, Manfred
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“I dwell in my despair—
And live—and live forever.”
– Lord Byron, Manfred
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Johnny Mandel - Suicide is Painless
The game of...
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“I can neither live nor die, nor am I capable of not wishing to die or live. And...”
– Antonin Artaud, On Suicide
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friendofcamus-deactivated201201 asked: Don't you sleep at all? :)
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“I don’t know what is going to become of me. I have no trade, no future.
Sick,...”
– Charles Bukowski, Captain is Out to Lunch
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“There’s no initiation either into such mysteries. He has to live in the...”
– Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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