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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he

Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadnt had an audience, and lines to speak? – Jean Genet

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What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesnt see Negroes hanging from its branches. – Jean Genet

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Jean Genet
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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. – Jean Genet

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Time
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We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent — or they themselves — was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible. – Jean Genet

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Suicide
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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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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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Suicide

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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Youll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law. – Desiderius Erasmus

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