"Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it."
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"The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable."
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"For a moment, off balance, was I annoyed? Anger is always fear, I thought, and fear is always fear of loss. Would I lose myself if he made those choices? It took a second to settle down: I'd lose nothing. They'd be his wishes, not mine, and he's free to live as he wants. The loss would come if I dared force him, tried to live for him and me as well. There'd be disaster worse than life on a bar stool."
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"The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder."
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"Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living."
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"We grow fearless by walking into our fears."
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"Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril."
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"Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!"
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"Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival."
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"It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence."
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"Fear is contagious. You can catch it."
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"There are those who discover they can leave behind destructive reactions and become patient as the earth, unmoved by fires of anger or fear, unshaken as a pillar, unperturbed as a clear and quiet pool."
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"There are some people who eat an orange but don't really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future."
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"To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence."
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"You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury."
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"You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live."
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"Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?"
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"Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor."
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"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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"That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate."
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