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“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

“She slides through the door with a gust of cold and locks the door behind her and I see her fingers trail across the polished steel—tip of each finger the same color as her lips. Funny orange. Like the tip of a soldering iron. Color so hot or so cold if she touches you with it you can’t tell which.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.”
― Émile Durkheim