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“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might...” George Orwell, 1984
“Only after disaster can we be resurrected.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
“The things we love destroy us every time” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.” John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
“Possibly this is woman's nature. When her passion is roused she loses her sensibility for all that is outside it. When, like the river, we women keep to our banks, we give nourishment with all that we have: when we overflow them we destroy with...” Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
“what fire does not destroy, it hardens.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries in itself the causes of its destruction.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
“Hence it is that all armed prophets have conquered, and the unarmed ones have been destroyed.” Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.” Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West, know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.” Barack Obama, Inaugural Address
“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“I am too idle to destroy for nothing.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“to love is to destroy, and . . . to be loved is to be the one destroyed.” Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
“What did it avail to pray when he knew that his soul lusted after its own destruction?” James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“We both have war inside of us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.” Veronica Roth, Insurgent
“Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it—which of these two attitudes is the least destructive? I don't know.” Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

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