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True Detective · Season 1, Episode 15

Rust Cohle in “Unfinished Business”

The ontological fallacy of expecting a light at the end of the tunnel, well, that's what the preacher sells, same as a shrink. See, the preacher, he encourages your capacity for illusion. Then he tells you it's a fucking virtue. Always a buck to be had doing that, and it's such a, a desperate sense of entitlement, isn't it? [looking up] Surely, this is all for me. Me, me, me, I, I, I’m so fuckin’ important, I’m so fuckin’ important, right? Fuck you.

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