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Page 1 of 1Emile Durkheim
April 15, 1858 - 1917
Nationality: French
Category: Sociologist
Subcategory: French Sociologist
|  Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. | | 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. | | 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. | | 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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