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1. "Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned." ~ Emile Durkheim
2. "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." ~ Emile Durkheim
3. "There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent." ~ Emile Durkheim
4. "Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities." ~ Emile Durkheim
5. "By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings." ~ Emile Durkheim
6. "Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument." ~ Emile Durkheim
7. "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." ~ Emile Durkheim
8. "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." ~ Emile Durkheim
9. "A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct." ~ Emile Durkheim
10. "A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact." ~ Emile Durkheim
11. "Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are determined modes of action." ~ Emile Durkheim
12. "The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world." ~ Emile Durkheim
13. "If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion." ~ Emile Durkheim
14. "Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons." ~ Emile Durkheim
15. "To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness." ~ Emile Durkheim
16. "Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds." ~ Emile Durkheim
17. "A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church." ~ Emile Durkheim
18. "Although our moral conscience is a part of our consciousness, we do not feel ourselves on an equality with it. In this voice which makes itself heard only to give us orders and establish prohibitions, we cannot recognize our own voices; the very tone in which it speaks to us warns us that it expresses something within us that is not of ourselves." ~ Emile Durkheim
19. "Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized." ~ Emile Durkheim
20. "That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit." ~ Emile Durkheim
21. "Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract;" ~ Émile Durkheim
22. "It is said that we do not make the guilty party suffer for the sake of suffering; it is nonetheless true that we find it right that he should suffer." ~ Émile Durkheim
23. "When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable." ~ Émile Durkheim
24. "Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him." ~ Émile Durkheim
25. "Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc." ~ Émile Durkheim
26. "Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain." ~ Émile Durkheim
27. "Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss." ~ Émile Durkheim
28. "...Solidarity is, literally something which the society possesses." ~ Émile Durkheim
29. "The most barbarous and the most fantastic rites and the strangest myths translate some human need, some aspect of life, either individual or social." ~ Émile Durkheim
30. "Nihil est in intellectu quod non ante fuerit in sensu," ~ Émile Durkheim
31. "We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it." ~ Émile Durkheim
32. "Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them." ~ Émile Durkheim

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...our loves ones truly are ever-present. We may bury their bodies or scatter their ashes, but their spirits are boundless and do not accompany them to the grave. The terms 'letting go' and 'closure' are just empty words. They mean nothing to someone who has suffered through the death of a loved one. Instead of insisting on figuratively burying our dead, why not keep them close to us? Love doesn't die when we do."
Author: April Slaughter

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