| You see, the lightning refuses to strike
me--that is where the defect is. We have to do our own striking, as Barney
Bernato did. But nobody ever gets the courage till he goes crazy. - Letter to Henry Rogers, 6/16/1897 Suicide is the only sane thing the young or old ever do in this life. |
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But we are all insane, anyway...The suicides seem to be the only sane people.
- Mark Twain's Notebook, #40, (Jan. 1897-July 1900)
Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, &
those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.
- Notebook, 1898
I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers
left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for
the release.
- Letter to William Dean Howells, 13 July 1889
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