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

"The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting."

"The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask."

"Are you afraid now?" said Gregor."At times," she admitted. "But it is no worse than if I were in Regalia. You see, I was tired of constant fear, so I made a decision. Everyday when I wake I tell myself it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it."Gregor thought this was the single saddest thing anyone had ever said to him. He couldn't answer."And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?"

"Our shadow is on the outside. And we can see in the dark: we can see you, we see you turn away, but one day we finally understand that you turn away not from our faces but from your own fears. From those things inside you that you think mark you as someone unlovable to your family, and society, and even to God."

"Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences."

"No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice."
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"There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight."

"Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves."

"The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation."

"The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble."
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