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“Pompeii has nothing to teach us, we know crack of volcanic fissure, slow flow of terrible lava, pressure on heart, lungs, the brain about to burst its brittle case (what the skull can endure!)”

Knows Heart Brain Teach Cases Terrible Flow Destruction Pressure Endure Cracks Lungs Skulls Lava Pompeii

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“The ghost of the heart of manred Cain And the more murderous brain Of Man, still redder Nero that conceived the death Of his mother Earth, and tore Her womb, to know the place where he was conceived.”

Knows Men Heart Stills Earth Mother Brain Destruction Ghost Womb Mother Earth Atomic Bomb Cain Nero

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.”

Men Helping Brain Lord Failing Destruction Increase Helping Others Grants Articles

Author:Walker Percy

“The brain is the man; its health is essential for normal living; its disorders are surely the most profound of human miseries; and its destruction annihilates a person humanly, however intact his body.”

Men Humans Persons Body Brain He Man Essentials Normal Destruction Misery Profound Disorder

Author:H. Chandler Elliott

“Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life-that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a horrible way to feel better. But there are two parts of your brain - one that really wants to destroy the other. & sometimes the idea of self-destruction is very romantic. I got over that.”

Way Want Feels Two Ideas Self Sometimes Brain Destruction Calm Horrible Upset Feel Better Self Destruction Self Harm Very Romantic

Author:Christina Ricci