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"What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again."
"One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear."
"From the moment fear begins I have ceased to fear."
"As soon as I have begun to fear I have ceased to fear."
"Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God."
"There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad."
"Fear that I was very different from everyone else. Fear that deep down inside I was a shallow fraud, that after the revolution or after Jesus came down to straighten everything out, everyone from hippies to hard-hats would unfold and blossom into the beautiful people they were while I would remain a gnarled little wart in the corner, oozing bile and giving off putrid smells."
"Darkness gives free rein to the mind's worst imaginings."
"One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are."
"This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead."
"...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them."
"Any fear is always worse than the thing itself."
"Philip says to fear me. Do you have any idea how afraid I am of him?"
"What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope."
"What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear."
"Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving."
"The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear."
"Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth."
"Imagine living your life without being afraid to take a risk and to explore life."
"I'll fight anybody my trainer puts me in with because I'm confident I can beat any fighter in the world. If anybody can see I'm almost a master at evading punches coming at me."
