destructive character, n.All

The Destructive character is a character that knows only one watchword: make room. And only one activity: clearing away.

The Destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying rejuvenates, because it clears away the traces of our own age; it cheers, because everything cleared away means to the destroyer a complete reduction, indeed a rooting out, of his own condition.

The Destructive character is a character that lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.