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For Polletti, experience had brought only the bitter residue of pleasure which is the true essence of disenchantment. Certain delights which in his youth had seemed unique and unobtainable had turned out, upon acquisition, to be infinitely and drearily repeatable.

— Robert Sheckley The 10th Victim (1965)

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Outside the curtained windows, Paris stewed in its miasma of self-congratulation and diesel fumes.

Hunter/Victim (1988)

How does the fool build his paradise?—out of the crumbling bricks of illusion and the watery cement of hope.

The Game of X (1965)

Man is the only animal whose fear of embarrassment can overcome his instinct for self-preservation.

The Game of X (1965)

Still, no matter how commonplace, one’s death is the most interesting event of one’s life.

Immortality, Inc (1959)

Nobody says any longer, “When will the killing stop?” Now we know that the killing will stop only when life itself stops.

Victim Prime (1987)

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