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“You’re about to commit suicide, it’s not like time is an issue, you’re about to give all yours away, why not watch a movie first?” (294)
— Apr 09, 2026 10:21AM
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“Like every other time I’ve tried to commit suicide, I didn’t think of leaving a note. What could I say? I love you. I’m sorry. They already knew that.” (225-226)
— Apr 07, 2026 01:39PM
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"In the case of suicide, the murderer and the victim are the same person. This doubling, this spinning, is what it is like to be a human. It's just that the suicidal person has taken it out further, has tried to end the doubling by enacting the doubling, so to speak." (216)
— Apr 07, 2026 10:02AM
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"We can say this while at the same time entertaining the thought that suicide in the future may still seem attractive, because we can recognize that our lives, after a failed suicide attempt, have provided us with irreplaceably good things...and yet still know that we might find ourselves again in such a place of depression and self-loathing that we once more see suicide as the only escape." (186)
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"At that moment, my needs and my fears are likely quite primitive and direct—pain fighting against love, fear fighting against obligation—and I might not care if what I was doing was fundamentally irrational or even shameful." (163)
— Apr 07, 2026 07:47AM
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