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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.

I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost; there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

For each of our actions there are only consequences.