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"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear."
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"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
"People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want."
"I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be scared anymore. Because my whole life I've been so damn scared. Scared to live because I was scared to die. But at the same I was so scared of living, so I wanted to die. Or maybe so scared of dying that I refused to live. You don't have to be afraid to fall, when you're already on the ground. You don't have to be scared to lose someone, when there's no one around to lose."
"I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and those who are not. I do not find terror exciting. I find it terrifying. One of my basic goals is to subject my nervous system to as little total terror as possible. The cruel paradox of course is that this kind of makeup usually goes hand in hand with a delicate nervous system that's extremely easy to terrify."
"When rationality begins to break down, the circuits of the human brain can overload. Axons grow bright and feverish. Hallucinations turn real: the quicksilver puddle at the point where perspective makes parallel lines seem to intersect is really there; the dead walk and talk; a rose begins to sing."
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"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better."
"The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality."
"The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower."
"I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have."
"It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm."
"I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results."
"So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself."
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