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“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
― Maxims
― Maxims

“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.”
― Watchmen
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.”
― Watchmen

“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.”
― V for Vendetta
― V for Vendetta

“We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.”
― Watchmen
― Watchmen

“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”
― The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
― The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
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