Emile Durkheim — "One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being i…"

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.
Emile Durkheim — Emile Durkheim Modern · Sociology founder

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Date: 1897

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