Slavoj Žižek
Philosopher, Cultural Critic
"Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures."
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Ruins
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Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support."
Marlon Brando
Actor, Director
"Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure."
Pablo Neruda
Poet, Diplomat
"There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle."
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"If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over."
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"Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice."
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"The only thing that can ruin a good day is people."
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"Why ruin a good story with the truth?"
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"Help means ruin and saving means slaying."
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"Let's not go and ruin it by thinking too much."
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"What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another."
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"My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first."
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"Why ruin a young girl's life when you can make an older women SO very happy !"
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"Love among the ruins... I'll tell you something, my friend: Weird love's better than no love at all."
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"Despair ruins some, presumption many."
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"The word of cheap grace has been the ruin of more Christians than any commandment of works."
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"Then I’d throw my automatic down the elevator shaft-after I’d wiped off all the fingerprints and all. Then I’d crawl back up to my room and call up Jane and have her come over and bandage up my guts. I pictured her holding a cigarette for me to smoke while I was bleeding and all. The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I’m not kidding."
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"Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it."
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"Ruin and recovering are both from within."
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"There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken."
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"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
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"Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes."
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"Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person."
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"Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes."
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