Only parents and torturers and the janitors of holocausts are asked to stand the sound of so much human grief.

Martin Amis
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  1. Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.

  2. And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.

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