"Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide……" — F. Sionil José
"Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too, because the foul and the good all die. The past, the present, and the future-what escape is there from these? None-and yet sometimes we are life's happy victims."
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F. Sionil José
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