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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.

Source: Suicide, bk. 2, ch. 6, sct. 1 (1897; tr. 1951).
-- Emile Durkheim, (Apr 15 1858-1917), French sociologist; He is noted primarily for his dark work about Suicide, 1951.

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