“Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

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Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

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“Every day America's destroyed and re-created,
America is what you do,
America is I and you,
America is what you choose to make it.”

W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet

Paul Bunyan

“The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), The Backbone of Night [Episode 7]

“Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Source: The Wedding

“Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one’s life.”

Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist

Source: Immortal Beloved

“Born in a prison, with burdens on our shoulders and our thoughts, we could not reach the end of a single day if the possibilities of ending it all did not incite us to begin the next day all over again.”

Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

3 May 1944
The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)
Context: I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.

“Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed….”

Yukio Mishima book The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Source: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

“"You really should come to the house - one of these days we might die without having seen each other again." - "Since we have to die in any case, what's the use of seeing each other again?"”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

Book III, Chapter 2.
Books, Coningsby (1844), The Young Duke (1831)

“Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day.”

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