At 46 years of age, David Foster Wallace hung himself in his basement.
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Hemingway
According to Ernest Hemingway, we are born with a raw optimism, but as we acquire knowledge of life’s inescapable suffering and fundamental emptiness, we are irreversibly damaged. Therefore, we must avoid the pain of thinking too much or feeling too much.
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During the final years of his life, Twain’s writings echoed a rancorous pessimism and a palpable misanthropy.
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