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Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.

Alan Moore

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Alan Moore
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: November 18
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