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  1. Hermann Hesse _ Siddhartha

    I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.
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  2. Dan Simmons _ The Fall of Hyperion

    ... a society devoted to self-destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.
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  3. Dan Simmons _ The Terror

    Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.
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  4. James Frey _ A Million Little Pieces

    This is how it has always been with me. Give me something good, I'll destroy it. Love me, I'll destroy you. I have never felt deserving of anything in my life.
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  5. Barry Eisler _ Extremis

    Sometimes I think the urge to believe in our own worldview is our most powerful intellectual imperative, the mind's equivalent of feeding, fighting, and fornicating. People will eagerly twist facts into wholly unrecognizable shapes to fit them into existing suppositions. They'll ignore the obvious, select the irrelevant, and spin it all into a tapestry of self-deception, solely to justify an idea, no matter how impoverished or self-destructive.
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  6. James Patterson _ Private Sydney

    Anger, hatred, and bitterness are lethal poisons. They cause a slow, painful emotional death that only you suffer. Self-destruction will never defeat an enemy or create justice.
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  7. a.s. byatt _ Ragnarok

    But if you write a version of Ragnarok in the twenty-first century, it is haunted by the imagining of a different end of things. We are a species of animal which is bringing about the end of the world we were born into. Not out of evil or malice, or not mainly, but because of a lopsided mixture of extraordinary cleverness, extraordinary greed, extraordinary proliferation of our own kind, and a biologically built-in short-sightedness.
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