"   If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.   "

"   Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.   "

"   But in the end one needs more courage to kill himself than to live.   "

"   The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.   "

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The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning:

The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest.

The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn’t have to.

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"   The man who kills a man kills a man.
The man who kills himself kills all men.
As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.   "