It does not matter what kind of self-destruction you choose — as if the protagonists in Furmani — Sokolov let say conscious of inevitability of their ontological and eschatological destiny, which they by no means want to change, but they accept it with joy of their own and peculiar optimism. Someone buries herself/himself in the library, and someone in a suburban tavern — they would say — the result is the same. The starting point is always that of futility, and the ultimate goal is destruction, which leads to self-destruction of all that restrains them from the total immersion in their own suffering and the pain of their own existence. Anonymous
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  2. Before you hate something you should try to understand it. - Martha Grimes

  3. Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality. - L.E. Modesitt Jr.

  4. Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. - Anonymous

  5. Think about what it would mean to fight, " he said. "Say we barricade ourselves here in the hotel and refuse to leave. They come at us with their Weapon, whatever it is. Some of us are hurt, some die. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>We go out... - Jeanne DuPrau

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  2. All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

  3. Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition that really suits them. This, they say, must certainly be their last, inasmuch as its close will be so great a shock that nothing can survive it. Every change...

  4. [P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

  5. Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

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