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"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear."
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"At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream."
"It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black."
"Throughout the evolution of mankind our very much primordial ancestors had one thing in common, it was ignorance. This ignorance gave birth to fear. Fear of the unknown became a quintessential element of their daily survival. To ace the intensity of the fear, rituals of worship arose."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better."
"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."
"She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel."
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