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“I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that every conversation I had with a psychiatrist during the morning visit made me long to hang myself because I was aware that I could not slit his throat.”
― Antonin Artaud

“How shall a man be proud, when his conception is a crime, his birth a penalty, his life a labour, and death a necessity!—”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, On Human Nature

“Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.”
― Émile Durkheim

“Thus the believer, like the delirious man, lives in a world peopled with beings and things which have only a verbal existence.”
― Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life