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1. "You're different. You're more perfect. Time is three things for most people, but for you, for us, just one. A singularity. One moment. This moment. Like you're the center of the clock, the axis on which the hands turn. Time moves about you but never moves you. It has lost its ability to affect you. What is it they say? That time is theft? But not for you. Close your eyes and you can start all over again. Conjure up that necessary emotion, fresh as roses." ~ Jonathan Nolan

2. "Here's the truth: People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain. Every man is broken into twenty-four-hour fractions, and then again within those twenty-four hours. It's a daily pantomime, one man yielding control to the next: a backstage crowded with old hacks clamoring for their turn in the spotlight. Every week, every day. The angry man hands the baton over to the sulking man, and in turn to the sex addict, the introvert, the conversationalist. Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots." ~ Jonathan Nolan

3. "For a few moments, the secrets of the universe are opened to us. Life is a cheap parlor trick. That's the miserable truth." ~ Jonathan Nolan

4. "If time and fear aren't enough to dissuade people from their revenge, then there's always authority, softly shaking its head and saying, 'We understand, but you're the better man for letting it go. For rising above it. For not sinking to their level. And besides,' says authority, 'if you try anything stupid, we'll lock you up in a little room.'" ~ Jonathan Nolan

5. "Lists are the only way out of this mess." ~ Jonathan Nolan

6. "The secret, of course, to any list is to keep it in a place where you're bound to see it." ~ Jonathan Nolan

7. "They tried to teach you to make lists in grade school, remember? Back when your day planner was the back of your hand. And if your assignments came off in the shower, well, then they didn't get done. No direction, they said. No discipline. So they tried to get you to write it all down somewhere more permanent." ~ Jonathan Nolan

8. "Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us." ~ Jonathan Nolan

9. "Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have to trust me. If this moment is repeated enough, if you keep trying — and you have to keep trying — eventually you will come across the next item on your list." ~ Jonathan Nolan

10. "Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance." ~ Jonathan Nolan

11. "Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector. A dark knight." ~ Jonathan Nolan

12. "How can you forgive if you can't remember to forget?" ~ Jonathan Nolan

13. "Everybody else needs mirrors to remind themselves who they are. You're no different." ~ Jonathan Nolan

14. "You will be late for your own funeral." ~ Jonathan Nolan

15. "Of course, weakness is strong. It's the primary impulse. You'd probably prefer to sit in your little room and cry. Live in your finite collection of memories, carefully polishing each one. Half a life set behind glass and pinned to cardboard like a collection of exotic insects. You'd like to live behind that glass, wouldn't you?" ~ Jonathan Nolan

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Soyons fermes, purs et fidèles ; au bout de nos peines, il y a la plus grande gloire du monde, celle des hommes qui n'ont pas cédé. [Let us be firm, pure and faithful; at the end of our sorrow, there is the greatest glory of the world, that of the men who did not give in.]"
Author: Charles De Gaulle