Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imagi…

Emile Durkheim
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Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. ✨ Emile Durkheim (2005). Suicide: A Study in Sociology, p.216, Routledge
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