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You lie in the bed,
an arm full of tubes,
a mind full of drugs,
but still thinking.
You see the figure
enter the quiet room
and you lift your arm
and focus your mind.
You ask the doctor,
if it can be arranged,
that your last day
not be your worst day.

— Thomas Ligotti Death Poems (2013)

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The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.

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It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.

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Madness, chaos, bone-deep mayhem, devastation of innumerable souls—while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.

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We are each either among the demoralized showing the way to a future of eternal nightmare, or we are losers celebrating our moment in hell.

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