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“As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence.”

Sally Brampton

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“Killing oneself is, anyway, a misnomer. We don't kill ourselves. We are simply defeated by the long, hard struggle to stay alive. When somebody dies after a long illness, people are apt to say, with a note of approval, "He fought so hard." And they are inclined to think, about a suicide, that no fight was involved, that somebody simply…

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