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“Another flaw of the system is the fact that various danger fronts often require very different firmaments. As a logical superstructure is built upon each, there follow clashes of incommensurable mo...”
“Our fate liesin the handsof the things we loveand sometimesthe things we loveare the thingsthat lead usto the fatal destructionof ourselves.”
“She was the death of me,the beginning and the end.And I never understood her,for how could someoneSo beautiful be the causeof so much destructionafter all.”
“I could break things in a thousand ways--anything from surgical dismantling as meticulous as a bomb squad work to wrecking ball style mass destruction. If I broke a thing, it stayed broke. If I bro...”
“One can always find hands for a work of destruction.”
“However much or little I had written, on a subsequent reading it always seemed so fundamentally flawed that I had to destroy it immediately and begin again.”
“She understood love. What destroys you saves you, she had told me.”
“By(e) pen, I've tried my hand at poetry; only to see how boring it is to me. That is, unless I get a chance to destroy each and every piece while doing it as I please.”
“If you do not love something, then it does not belong to you. For it wont be long, before you destroy that something, exactly because, you do not love it.-”
“Yes, well, people are very good at destroying things, good things.”
“The nights now are full of wind and destruction; the trees plunge and bend and their leaves fly helter skelter until the lawn is plastered with them and they lie packed in gutters and choke rain pi...”
“Selfishness is a giant in destruction of relationships.”
“But Octavia was a nice person with a big, generous heart who felt sorry for outsiders and tried to help them. And people like her never get any thanks for their selflessness. They are not the ones ...”
“You look at these mountains now, and they look so permanent and peaceful, but they're changing all the time and the changes aren't always peaceful. Underneath us, beneath us here right now, there a...”
“Freedom to breed will bring ruin to all.”
“If and when our civilization comes to ruin, the destructive agent will be Science; man's knowledge of science, applied to warfare, meaning slaughter not only of human bodies, but of human instituti...”
“Even as a waste disposal site, the world is finite.”
“...seeking refuge from a world in which huge and mysterious forces were let loose to destruction.”
“Destruction makes people go away so,if you hide inside destruction,you're safe”
“Stone should last forever, but on that night I came to understand that a stone was only another form of dust. Streams of holy dust loomed in the air, and every breath included remnants of the Templ...”
