A man is a god in ruins.
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Ch. 8, Prospects.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What interests me is the transformation, not the monument. I don't construct ruins, but I feel ruins are moments when things show themselves. A ruin is not a catastrophe. It is the moment when things can start again.
Anselm Kiefer
Ruins—antique ruins at least—are what is left when history has moved on. They are no longer at the mercy of history, only of time.
Geoff Dyer
We moralise among ruins.
Benjamin Disraeli
Patriotism ruins history.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are living even now among punishments and ruins.
Wendell Berry
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