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If we vanished tomorrow, no organism on this planet would miss us. Nothing in nature needs us.

— Thomas Ligotti The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror (2010)

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

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe (2015)

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

Teatro Grottesco (2008)

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

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe (2015)

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.

The Spectral Link (2014)

Nothing belongs to us. Everything is something that is rented out. Our very heads are filled with rented ideas passed on from one generation to the next.

Teatro Grottesco (2008)

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