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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.

Emile Durkheim

Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.
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Abyss Capacity Force Regular
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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Comfortable Greatness Harsh Time
When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.
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Law Moral Necessary Rule Value
A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them.
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Belief Community Moral Relative Religion System
When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.
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Beginning Discover Lose Man Mindset Mirror
The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.
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Belief Collection Creative Emotion Sentiment System
A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.
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Curiosity Mindset Question Risk
By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.
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Break Character Continue Fear Separate
Melancholy suicide. – This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract.
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Attract Connection Depression Melancholy Patience Pleasure Realize Suicide
There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.
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Character History Name Sociology Worth
Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.
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Enough Establishment Experiment Law Observation Willing
Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.
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Division Labour Life Social Source
There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.
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Collection Compatible Humor People Psychology Sadness Science Society
At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.
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Logic Relation Religion
A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.
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Absurd Drink Health Himself Language Perfection Person Sick Thinking Time
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.
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Character Live Man Melancholy Sadness Sorrow

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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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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