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Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.

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Glen Duncan
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: October 17
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Glen A. Duncan
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Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.
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You love life because life's all there is.
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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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Every present anger derives from past weakness.
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No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.
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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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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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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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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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