"The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore."
-Cyril Connolly
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"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.“
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"Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear."
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"Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
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"In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female."
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"We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving."
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"It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book."
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"A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing."
-Mary Schmich
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us."
-Marianne Williamson
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"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation."
-Simone de Beauvoir
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"Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."
-Graham Greene
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"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
-Marcus Aurelius
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"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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