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    Alan Moore
    “Rorschach's Journal: October 12th, 1985

    Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face.

    The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.

    The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No.”
    ― Alan Moore, Watchmen
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    Alan Moore
    “Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.”
    ― Alan Moore, Watchmen
    tags: nihilism
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    Alan Moore
    “The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'SAVE US!'...and I'll look down and whisper 'No.”
    ― Alan Moore, Watchmen
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    Alan Moore
    “What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to uncover the ones who, quite legally, have brought about her poverty?”
    ― Alan Moore, Watchmen
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    Alan Moore
    “You see, Doctor, God didn't kill that little girl. Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs. If God saw what any of us did that night he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew... God doesn't make the world this way. We do.”
    ― Alan Moore, Watchmen
    tags: rorschach
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
    tags: life, regret
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
    tags: despair, self
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Where am I? Who am I?
    How did I come to be here?
    What is this thing called the world?
    How did I come into the world?
    Why was I not consulted?
    And If I am compelled to take part in it, where is the director?
    I want to see him.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: life
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand...”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
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    John Muir
    “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
    ― John Muir
    tags: animals, caring, earth, forests, nature, plants, trees, wilderness
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.”
    ― Richard P. Feynman
    tags: love, philosophy, physics, priorities
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    Brent Weeks
    “A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint”
    ― Brent Weeks, The Way of Shadows
    tags: dark-humor, fantasy
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    Brent Weeks
    “Assassination is an art, milord, and I am the city’s most accomplished artist - Durzo Blint”
    ― Brent Weeks
    tags: dark-humor, fantasy
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    “Life's a grave dig it.”
    ― K.R. Helms
    tags: dark-humor
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    “Most people on the ledge of a tall building were not afraid they'd fall; they were afraid they'd jump.”
    ― Lauren Alego
    tags: dark, dark-humor, dark-tower, horror, horror-authors
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “If you have to explain your sense of humor, then you are performing for the wrong crowd.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: audience, confidence, critics, dark-humor, family, friends, humor, sarcasm, strangers, wit
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    Daniel C. Dennett
    “There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.”
    ― Daniel Dennett
    tags: philosophy
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    Daniel C. Dennett
    “Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.”
    ― Daniel C. Dennett, Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness
    tags: science
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    Daniel C. Dennett
    “If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.”
    ― Daniel C. Dennett, Freedom Evolves
    tags: consciousness, free-will, unconscious
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    Daniel C. Dennett
    “One of the surprising discoveries of modern psychology is how easy it is to be ignorant of your own ignorance.”
    ― Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
    tags: ignorance
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    Daniel C. Dennett
    “As the comedian Emo Phillips once said, “When I was a child, I used to pray to God for a bicycle. But then I realized that God doesn’t work in that way—so I stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness!”
    ― Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
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    Daniel C. Dennett
    “A good library has all the good books. A great library has all the books.”
    ― Daniel C. Dennett, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
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    Daniel C. Dennett
    “The more you have invested in your religion, the more you will be motivated to protect that investment. Stark”
    ― Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Are we not all actors playing parts in another person's play?”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: action, actors, actress, comedians, comedy, connections, curiousity, dark-humor, drama, good-will-hunting, heroes, horror, humor, irony, life, life-roles, lovers, monsters, perspective, philosophy, religion, roles, romance, shakespeare, teachers, theology, viewpoint, villians, worldsuck, writing
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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
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