The rational man may talk a good game about suicide, but reason must give way to obsession and finally squalor before he can actually do it. (Wilfrid Sheed)

The rational man may talk a good game about suicide, but reason must give way to obsession and finally squalor before he can actually do it.

Wilfrid Sheed

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