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Prot: Every being in the universe knows right from wrong, Mark.

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Prot: Let me tell you something, Mark. You humans, most of you, subscribe to this policy of an eye for an eye, a life for a life, which is known throughout the universe for its... stupidity.

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Prot: Even your Buddha and your Christ had quite a different vision. But nobody's paid much attention to them, not even your Buddhists and your Christians.

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Prot: I shall miss Earth, it has great potential.

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Prot: Why is a soap bubble round? Because it is the most energy efficient configuration. Similarly, on your planet I look like you; on K-Pax I look like a K-PAXian.

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Prot: You know, for an educated person Mark, you repeat things quite a bit. Are you aware of that?

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Prot: Now if you'll excuse me, I have a beam of light to catch.

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Prot: I will admit the possibility that I am Robert Porter, if you will admit the possibility that I am from K-PAX. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a beam of light to catch.

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Prot: I had never been to a class BA-3 planet before.
Dr. Mark Powell: Class BA-3?
Prot: Early stage of evolution-future uncertain.

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Prot: You seem overly upset, Mark. To borrow a phrase from Navarro, you need to chill.

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Prot: [after "talking" to the dog] She says she doesn't like it when you hide her favorite tennis shoe, and she doesn't hear so well on her left side, so don't sneak up on her anymore.

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Prot: [after Mark gives him his pen] A much more efficient writing tool.

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Claudia Villars: [after prot has disappeared] Patients do not escape from this institution. They don't escape. I'm going to have a great time explaining this to the state board. I've got psychotics on the fourth floor packing up their sneakers because they all think they're going off to K-PAX. Find him.

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Dr. Mark Powell: Tell me about your boyhood on K-Pax. Where were you born? You were... born right, K-Paxians have babies?

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Dr. Mark Powell: on the reproductive process of K-paxians: If it's such a pain procedure, then how do you reproduce?
Prot: As carefully as possible.

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Prot: I wanna tell you something Mark, something you do not yet know, that we K-PAXians have been around long enough to have discovered. The universe will expand, then it will collapse back on itself, then will expand again. It will repeat this process forever. What you don't you know is that when the universe expands again, everything will be as it is now. Whatever mistakes you make this time around, you will live through on your next pass. Every mistake you make, you will live through again, & again, forever. So my advice to you is to get it right this time around. Because this time is all you have.

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Dr. Mark Powell: What would you say if I told you I think you're as human as I am?
Prot: I would say you're in need of a thorazine drip, Doctor.

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Dr. Mark Powell: Do you know why you're here?
Prot: You think I'm crazy.
Dr. Mark Powell: I prefer the term "ill". Do you think you're ill?
Prot: A little homesick, perhaps.
Dr. Mark Powell: And where is home?
Prot: K-PAX.
Dr. Mark Powell: K-PAX?
Prot: It's a planet about 2,000 of your 'light-years' away.
Dr. Mark Powell: I see.

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[On why he always wears sunglasses]
Prot: Your planet is really bright.

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Prot: Your produce alone has been worth the trip.

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Prot: Don't worry, I'm not going to burst through your chest.

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Prot: Doctor. Doctor. Doctor. Doctor. How many doctors are there on this planet?

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Prot: Don't get me wrong, Mark. You've been very hospitable.
[pause, Prot looks around]
Prot: Hospital. Hospitable.
[Prot smiles]

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Prot: Do I smell apple pie?

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Prot: I travel light.

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Dr. Mark Powell: What if I were to tell you that according to a man who lived on our planet, named Einstein, that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light?
Prot: I would say that you misread Einstein, Dr. Powell. May I call you Mark? You see Mark, what Einstein actually said was that nothing can accelerate to the speed of light because its mass would become infinite. Einstein said nothing about entities already traveling at the speed of light or faster.

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Dr. Mark Powell: I'm only familiar with nine planets.
Prot: Actually there are ten. But that doesn't matter, I'm not from your solar system.

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Howie: You never gave me my third task. What's my third task?
Prot: To stay here, and be prepared for anything.

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Prot: Doctor... patient... curious distinction.

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Dr. Mark Powell: Have a seat.
Prot: "Have a seat." What a curious expression.

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Dr. Chakraborty: He most definitely has a sensitivity to white light, but I think it's his range that you'll find interesting.
Dr. Mark Powell: What am I looking at?
Dr. Chakraborty: Uh, he can detect light at a wavelength of up to 300 to 400 angstroms. Ultraviolet. Of course, Prot's explanation is that due to his planet's peculiar quality of light caused by its two suns, K-PAXians are used to light conditions much like our twilight most of the time.
Dr. Mark Powell: Whoa, w-wait, wait a minute. Uh, Chuck, I didn't think human beings could see ultraviolet light.
Dr. Chakraborty: We can't.

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Prot: [looking Powell astonished] You humans, sometimes its hard to imagine how you've made it this far.

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Dr. Mark Powell: Oh, 6:15 was late. Didn't leave the station till 6:30. Should have caught the nearest beam of light.

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Prot: We don't have families on K-PAX.
Rachel Powell: Well, you don't know what you're missing.

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Prot: You know what I've learned about your planet? There's enough life on Earth to fill 50 planets. Plants, animals, people, fungi, viruses, all jostling to find their place, bouncing off each other, feeding off each other. Connected.
Dr. Mark Powell: You don't have that kind of connection on K-PAX?
Prot: Nobody wants, nobody needs. On K-PAX, when I'm gone, nobody misses me. There would be no reason to. And yet I sense that when I leave here... I will be missed. Yes. Strange feeling.

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