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“I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.”
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“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
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“Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.”
― Girl, Interrupted
― Girl, Interrupted
“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
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“Chronic anxiety is a state more undesirable than any other, and we will try almost any maneuver to eliminate it. Modern man is living in anxious anticipation of destruction. Such anxiety can be easily eliminated by self-destruction. As a German saying puts it: 'Better an end with terror than a terror without end.”
― The Art of Dying
― The Art of Dying
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