“Suicide creates his own society: to shut yourself off from other people in some dingy, rented box and stare, like Melville's Bartleby, day in and day out at the dead wall outside your window is in itself a rejection of the world which is said to be rejecting you. It is a way of saying, like Bartleby, 'I prefer not to' to every offer and every possibility, which is a condition no amount of social engineering will cure.” PeopleWorldSocietyPossibilityWallWindowSuicideRejectionDeadCureSocial EngineeringBoxShutOfferBartlebyDingy Book:The Savage God: A Study of Suicide Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
“Ah, la felicidad busca la luz, por eso juzgamos que el mundo es alegre; pero el dolor se esconde en la soledad, por eso juzgamos que el dolor no existe.” MelvilleHermanBartleby Book:Bartleby y otros cuentos Source: Bartleby y otros cuentos