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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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Glen Duncan
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: October 17
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Glen A. Duncan
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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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Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.
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I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception.
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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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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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This is love: You stop bothering about the universal, the general, get sucked instead into the local and particular: When will I see her again? What shall we do today? Do you like these shoes? Theory and reflection are delicate old uncles bustled out of the way by the boisterous nephews action and desire. Themes evaporate, only plot remains.
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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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