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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say. – Cyril Connolly

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If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are – like fishes not meant to swim. – Cyril Connolly

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Body, the
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Cyril Connolly
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Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action. – Cyril Connolly

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Faith
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Cyril Connolly
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I dont break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property – thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life. – Michel de Montaigne

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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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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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It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. – E. M. Cioran

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Wisdom begins at the end. – Daniel Webster

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When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time one must always go forward – or go back. He who now talks about the freedom of the press goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. – Vladimir Lenin

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My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in womens education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor. – Antonia Fraser

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I try to avoid saying anything positive about any presidential candidate for fear that if I actually like them then I will kill their campaign. – Jack Abramoff

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