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Emile Durkheim
 
Name:   Emile Durkheim
 
Nationality:   French
 
Date of Birth:   Apr 15, 1858
 
Date of Death:   1917
 
Profession:   Sociologist
 
 
 
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Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
 
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It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
 
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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.
 
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Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
 
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