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"Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want. (Amy March to Teddy Lawrence)"
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

tags: amy-march, gifts, good-gifts, jo-march, longing, lost-love, love, ruin, spoil, spoil-you, teddy-lawrence, throw-away, unrequited, unrequited-love, want, waste-of-life, wicked, wickedness

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"This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow."
— Mervyn Peake (Titus Groan)

tags: description, purple, ruin

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"I won't let school ruin my education."
— Mark Twain

tags: education, humor, ruin

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"Long road to ruin, there in your eyes
Under the cold streetlights.
No tomorrow, no dead-ends in sight!"
— Foo Fighters

tags: long, road, ruin

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