"The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."

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"The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."

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"Of course we're friends ... we are both civilized men, aren't we? We've shared bed and board and bottle. We'll always be friends, and the dog collar I have on you will always be ignored by mutual consent, and I'll take good and benevolent care of you. All I ask in return is your soul. Small item. We can even ignore the fact that you've handed it over, the way we ignore the dog collar."

Stephen King, American Author

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"You cannot avoid what you fear because what you fear is inside of you."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."

Christian Nestell Bovee, American Author

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"I used to worry about my Fears, but I realized that most of the time nothing bad happened. So, I have stopped worrying."

R.V.M., Indian Author

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"When I was young I used to have this nightmare about dying. I used to lie awake at night screaming. All my schoolfriends went to heaven or hell, and I was sent to Southend."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it) because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he is constructing? Who knows, perhaps he only loves that edifice from a distance, and is by no means in love with it at close quarters; perhaps he only loves building it and does not want to live in it, but will leave it, when completed..."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"In the world of lovers, there is no fear."

Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann, British Musician

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"I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear."

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"Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present."

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"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."

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"The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food."

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"There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives."

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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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