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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#heathcliff #destruction

Mutually assured destruction. ↗

— Holly Black

#secret #destruction

Waddya want me to do? through my sling shot at him? ↗

— Shirley Hughes

#destruction

And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . . ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#dreams

There are some people who live in a dream world, and some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. ↗

— Douglas Everett

#dreams #inspirational #dreams

Them lady poets must not marry, pal. ↗

— John Berryman

#poets #dreams

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#self-destruction #self-mutilation #truth #wisdom #destruction

I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#destruction

Be the flame, not the moth. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#self-destruction #destruction

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#innocence