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  1. Richard Matheson _ The Shrinking Man

    Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that was uncapturable except in thought. It was without satisfaction. Mostly it hurt….
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  2. Richard Matheson _ The Shrinking Man

    This, he knew, was courage, the truest, ultimate courage, because there was no one here to sympathize or praise him for it. What he felt was felt without the hope of commendation.
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  3. Richard Matheson _ The Shrinking Man

    Perhaps jungle life, despite physical danger, was a relaxing one. Surely it was free of the petty grievances, the disparate values of society. It was simple, devoid of artifice and ulcer-burning pressures.
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  4. Richard Matheson _ The Shrinking Man

    To look at the entire journey all at once was stupidity. You thought of it in segments; that was the only way.
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  5. Richard Matheson _ The Shrinking Man

    It was more than a spider. It was every unknown terror in the world fused into wriggling, poison-jawed horror. It was every anxiety, insecurity, and fear in his life given a hideous, night-black form.
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  6. Richard Matheson _ The Shrinking Man

    But now, in the final hours, even hope had vanished. Yet he could smile. At a point without hope he had found contentment. He knew he had tried and there was nothing to be sorry for. And this was complete victory, because it was a victory over himself.
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  7. Richard Matheson _ The Shrinking Man

    Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that was uncapturable except in thought. It was without satisfaction. Mostly, it hurt…
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