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Quote by Emile Durkheim
Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the w

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. We create it out of whole cloth. – Emile Durkheim

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Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. – Emile Durkheim

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Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them. – Emile Durkheim

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While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them. – Emile Durkheim

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Possibly the worst break up line ever: its not me, its you. – Anonymous

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Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better. – Bible

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It is foolish to tear ones hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth. – William Blake

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