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is a representation of what preceded it. The removal of ruins erases meaning and memory.

Ruins represent the physical decay of what preceded them, but their removal erases meaning and memory. Rebeca Solnit [1]

is an allegory of thinking itself and a mediation on ambivalence.

Walter Benjamin saw in ruins 'allegories of thinking itself,'a meditation on ambivalence.

is not merely something which signals decay but it is also a certain imaginative perspectivism in its hopeful and tragic dimension.

According to Simmel, ruins are the opposite of the perfect moment pregnant with potentialities... they reveal in 'retrospect' what this epiphanic moment had in 'prospect.'4 Yet they do not merely signal decay but also a certain imaginative perspectivism in its hopeful and tragic dimension. Simmel saw in the fascination with ruins a peculiar form of 'collaboration' between human and natural creation: 'Nature has transformed the work of art into material for her own expression as she had previously served as material for art.'5' (net)

is deplorable, but the most depolroable of ruins is that of a noble mind.

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable. Arthur Conan Doyle

is a thing where what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

What is a ruin but Time easing itself of endurance' ',

is tantamount to sentiments, ideas or bonds that are no longer animated by the breath of life but which nevertheless persist shorn of any use or function relevant to thought and existence, but saturated with the past and redolent with a sense of the destruction of its reality wrought by the passage of time.

Ruins The symbolic sense of ruins is self-evident and derived directly from the literal sense: they signify desolation and life defunct. They are tantamount to sentiments, ideas or bonds which are no longer animated by the breath of life but which nevertheless persist shorn of any use or function relevant to thought and existence, but saturated with the past and redolent with a sense of the destruction of its reality wrought by the passage of time. Ruins are symbolically equivalent to biological mutilation.

is absolute proof that the world of dreams, like the planet earth, is round.

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