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Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

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Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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For in disease the most voluntary or most special movements, faculties, etc., suffer first and most, that is in an order the exact opposite of evolution. Therefore I call this the principle of Dissolution.

John Hughlings Jackson
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People use the words "beginning" and "end" to describe the start and end of things. However, "beginning" is really the event of coming together when energy gathers, and "end" is simply the dissolution of that energy. That which came together can easily dissolve if conditions become unfavorable. That which has dissolved may come together again if circumstances are appropriate. Therefore, who is to say that there is a beginning and an end?

Liezi
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You have the power to strip away many superfluous troubles located wholly in your judgement, and to possess a large room for yourself embracing in thought the whole cosmos, to consider everlasting time, to think of the rapid change in the parts of each thing, of how short it is from birth until dissolution, and how the void before birth and that after dissolution are equally infinite.

Marcus Aurelius
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She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring.

Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio
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And in the night you realize, when you wake out of a dream, overcome and captivated by the enchantment of visions that crowd in on each other, just how fragile a handhold, how tenuous a boundary separates us from darkness - we are little flames, inadequately sheltered by thin walls from the tempest of dissolution and insensibility in which we flicker and are often all but extinguished. Then the muted sounds of battle surrounds us, and we creep into ourselves and stare wide-eyed into the night.

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
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Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution

justice without mercy is cruelty.
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The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.

Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.

Ross Macdonald, The Chill
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The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.

Ludwig Feuerbach, Principles of the Philosophy of the Future
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