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Dan Simmons Quotes

Dan Simmons quotes about pain

American Author, Writer April 4, 1948

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To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for... Dan Simmons
We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, these limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain. We are destined and designed to bear our pain with us, hugging it tight to our bellies like the young Spartan thief hiding a wolf cub so it can eat away our insides. What other creature in God's wide domain would carry the memory of you, Fanny, dust these nine hundred years, and allow it to eat away at him even as consumption does the... Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons quote: " pain has been with him since birth - the universe's gift to a..."
... pain has been with him since birth - the universe's gift to a poet ... Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons quote: "Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long..."
Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity. Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons quote: "There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only..."
There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain. Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons quote: "Pain is the curl and foam of a wave that does not break."
Pain is the curl and foam of a wave that does not break. Dan Simmons
Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as the youthful belief in one's immortality... and the inevitable disillusionment is just as painful. Dan Simmons

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