Quote by Havelock Ellis
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in c

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. – Havelock Ellis

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Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest–whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories–comes afterward. These are games; one must first answer. – Albert Camus

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Oh! snatched away in beautys bloom,
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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable. – Immanuel Kant

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It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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