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"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"
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"The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing."
"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."
"He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving."
"Self-slaughter is an extravagant enactment of feeling sorry for oneself. Suicide is stingy act, because no matter how wretched our life may currently be, a person can always rise tomorrow and perform some small act of kindness for other people, care for a pet, or perform some other caring act that works towards preserving nature's graciousness. To die of their own hand is to cheat other people and shortchange Mother Nature; it is taking without giving back in kind. What combats suicide is a sense of gratitude, a willingness to give to other people, and to cease living life as a taker. Without a profound appreciation for all that is living and devoid of a sincere willingness to contribute to the flourishing of all life forms, one can callously write off the value of their own life."
"Not everyone who has killed themselves because they were HIV positive would have been killed by AIDS."
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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."
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."
"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."
"The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."
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