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“Any animal aware that it could relieve its suffering by ending its own life would be expected to seize the opportunity. By this light, suicide can be understood as the default human response to intolerable distress.”

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Book:Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health

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“The first, pain, is an ancient self-protective signal that enables animals to navigate fitness hazards in their external and internal environments. The aversiveness of pain is designed precisely to induce action to end or escape it. The second suicidogenic adaptation is the exceptional intellect of the mature brain, which is able to obey the imperative to escape pain, effectively but maladaptively, by terminating its own consciousness. These dual 'pain' and 'brain' conditions - motivation and means, respectively - are not only necessary for deliberate self-killing but sufficient.”

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Book:Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health

Source: Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health

“I might have my holes, but the healing of today means that they will be smaller in every tomorrow, including the one that is now only hours away.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Holding Brigid in his arms, it is quite clear they are more than the sum of their fragile parts. They are unified, made whole. With some certainty he knows no further hardships can befall him, not now he has found Brigid.”

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Book:The Angel and the Apothecary

Source: The Angel and the Apothecary

“I admire your beliefs Miss Zeldin, and rest assured… you could never offend me.”

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Book:The Angel and the Apothecary

Source: The Angel and the Apothecary

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”

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Author:Emily Bronte

“And as his body thaws into hers, he is no longer sure where her pleasure ends and his begins, for bodies and minds deliquesce into something of a stupor.”

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Book:The Angel and the Apothecary

Source: The Angel and the Apothecary

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