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“ Sometimes I think Im just not good for people, that its not good for them to be around me. I wear em down. They they get unhappy. ”

“ I sure hope that old lady was wrong. About death not being the end of it. ”

“ People I have seen the finale of thousands of lives, man. Young, old, each one so sure of their realness. You know that their sensory experience constituted a unique individual with purpose and meaning. So certain that they were more than biological puppet. The truth wills out, and everybody sees. Once the strings are cut, all fall down. ”

“ I know who I am. And after all these years, theres a victory in that. ”

“ I tell myself I bear witness. But the real answer is that it's obviously my programming. And I lack the constitution for suicide. ”

“ To realize that all your lifeyou know, all your love, all your hate, all your memory, all your painit was all the same thing. It was all the same dream. A dream that you had inside a locked room. A dream about being a person. And like a lot of dreams there's a monster at the end of it. ”

“ And you could just let go. Finally know that you didnt have to hold on so tight. ”

“ The world needs bad men. We keep other bad men from the door. ”

“ In eternity, where there is no time, nothing can grow. Nothing can become. Nothing changes. So death created time to grow the things that it would kill... and you are reborn but into the same life that you've always been born into. ”

“ Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight - brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal. ”