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- It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.
(Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God")
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- I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies, nocturnal emissions, hobbies, choice of radio program, changes in out look and so forth.
(Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita")
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- But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
(Wally Lamb, "I Know This Much Is True")
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- That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride.
(William Faulkner, "As I Lay Dying")
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- And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.
(William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar")
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- Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.
(William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night")
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- No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.
(Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Left Hand of Darkness")
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- There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.
(Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Left Hand of Darkness")
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- Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
(Veronica Roth, "Divergent")
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- Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up
(Veronica Roth, "Divergent")
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- I ignore my fear. When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist.
(Veronica Roth, "Divergent")
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- It's easy to be brave when they're not my fears.
(Veronica Roth, "Divergent")
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- Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn.
(Veronica Roth, "Divergent")
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- The crowd mistrusts the allurement of paladins. The masses, ponderous bodies that they are, and fragile on account of their very heaviness, fear adventure; and there is adventure in the ideal.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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