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Emile Durkheim
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Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.
(translated 1951)
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Emile Durkheim
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Suicide, bk. 3, ch. 3, sct. 1
, 1897
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