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Pain revealed the paltry dimensions of love. The paltry dimensions of everything, in fact, except pain.

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Glen Duncan
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: October 17
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Glen A. Duncan
Saul Black
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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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Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers grace only exists to be fallen from.
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Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes.
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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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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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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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I'm too conceited for therapy.
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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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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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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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No amount of violence you've done to others prepares you for violence done to yourself.
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