It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary …

Emile Durkheim
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It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss. ✨ John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). Suicide, p.247, Simon and Schuster
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