"Of course, I am not venturing to explain all these suicides -- this I cannot do -- but I am firmly convinced that the majority of suicides in toto, directly or indirectly, were committed as a result of one and the same spiritual illness -- the absence in the souls of these men and women of the sublime idea of existence."
-- Diary of a Writer, Dostoevsky, 1876, cited in God's Funeral, A. N. Wilson, 1999, p. 11.
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