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We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we de

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings. – Alfred Jarry

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To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form. – Alfred Jarry

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Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men. – Alfred Jarry

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It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have. – Janet Fitch

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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble. – Walter Benjamin

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