“You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.”
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Section 222
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
“The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.”
— Kóbó Abe
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