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“For what do mortals know, with their limited means? Except that earthly life, whether noble or base, is sad, and the oceans of the world are created from the salt tears of men.”

Sadness Meaning Of Life

Book:Arthur Rex

Source: Arthur Rex

“If you continued to overestimate your enemy, he would eventually realize the prediction: some law worked in such cases, perhaps the reverse of Diminishing Returns.”

Respect Enemies Overestimation

Book:Neighbors: A Novel

Source: Neighbors: A Novel

“But as luck would have it his means of resisting fright was to simulate boldness—alone at night on a darkened city street he would invariably, teeth tightly occluded, steer himself towards any threatening shadow that offered itself, on the principle that all malefactors abhor the initiative of others.”

Book:Neighbors

Source: Neighbors

“A man is most susceptible to terror when he is in the earlier phases of his night's sleep.”

Sleep Vulnerable

Book:Neighbors: A Novel

Source: Neighbors: A Novel