“We are on alert 24/7. And everything that you report will be investigated. We do it in private. We do it covertly. This could be a problem, it could simply be your neighbor having a bad day. But better be safe than sorry.”
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“People are less certain of their national identities or their place in the world. It starts looking different and disorienting. And there is no doubt that that has produced populist movements both from the left and from the right in many countries in Europe.”
“Climate change is one of the issues I worry most about because its impacts are enormous. But they're gradual, they're not immediate.”
“In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.”
“And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the poet-pilgrim in a dark wood not sure how to proceed. Which way is the right way?”
“I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I'm not too sure I'm gonna get them back.”
“I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.”
“What I find really difficult is making career decisions.”
“Fear exists until the moment when the unavoidable happens, after that we must waste none of our energy on it.”
“No one could make a choice without feeling afraid.”
“Everything new troubles us. Life catches us unawares and obliges us to journey towards the unknown, even when we do not want to, even when we do not need to.”
“Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.”
“But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.”
“Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.”
“It's natural to be afraid of replacing everything you already gained by a dream.”
“Dream and don't ask too many questions, or fear will overcome your feelings.”
“There is a huge difference between danger and fear.”
“The search can be as interesting as the fear you feel, as long as you overcome that fear.”
“She regretted having taken his hand, she wanted to get away from there as soon as possible, to hide her shame, never again to see that man who had witnessed all that was most sordid in her, and who nevertheless continued to treat her with such tenderness. But again she remembered Mari's words: She didn't need to explain her life to anyone, not even to the young man standing before her.”
“Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory. But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.”