Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses …

Emile Durkheim
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Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. ✨ John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). Suicide, p.277, Simon and Schuster
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