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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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There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter. – Jean Genet

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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. – Jean Genet

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A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle. – Jean Genet

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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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The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. – E. M. Cioran

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And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more. – Ogden Nash

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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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