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Glen Duncan Inspirational Quotes (45)

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Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.
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I don’t know where the universe came from or what happens to creatures when they die. I don’t know if the whole thing’s an unravelling accident or an inscrutable design. I don’t know how one should live—but I know that one should live, if one can possibly bear it.
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Grace only exists to be fallen from.
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Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers grace only exists to be fallen from.
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Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.
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We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.
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The flesh had infinity in it. I must know every inch by touch yet every inch renewed its mystery the instant my hand moved on. Delightful endless futility.
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That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.
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One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying.
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Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.
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Once you've stopped loving someone breaking his or her heart's just an unpleasant chore you have to get behind you. My God, you really don't love me anymore, do you? No matter your decency the victim's incredulity's potentially hilarious. You manage not to laugh.
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Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus.
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I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception.
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Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them.
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Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.
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You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.
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Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom she's romantically besotted.
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Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.
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The first thing to say about Eve is that she was a big improvement on the Adam design, or that Adam was an extremely misguided variation on the Eve design. (Consider testicles. Two concentrated nuclei of absolute vulnerability. Where? Dangling between the legs. I rest my case.)
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Pain is beyond reason, an obliterating giant stupidity to which all your history of jokes and nuance and ideas and caresses is nothing, simply nothing.
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My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken away, forever.
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Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the zenith.
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Time, you'll be pleased to know--and since one must start somewhere--was created in creation. The question What was there before creation? is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.
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I'm too conceited for therapy.
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