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“All warfare is based on deception”
― Sun Tzu, "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu

“And what is it that civilization softens in us? The only gain of civilization for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations -- and absolutely nothing more.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better -- cheap happiness or exalted sufferings?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“My heart stood still, I held my breath, I feared that if I drew a breath she would dissipate like smoke or a cloud; her silence had the power of a disabling command. It was as if a crystalline wall had been erected between us; I was to suffocate from this instant, from this hour or for eternity—”
― Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl