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Emile Durkheim

Date of birth: 1858-04-15

Date of death: 1917-00-00

Quotes number: 4

Nationality: French

Profession: Sociologist

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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Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

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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.

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