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"He understood then that all his exploits as a reporter, the feats that had won him such recognition and fame, were merely an attempt to keep his most ancient fears at bay, a stratagem for taking refuge behind a lens to test whether reality was more tolerable from that perspective."
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"The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear."
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"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
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"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
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"Replace Fear of Radiation with Curiosity."
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"We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand."
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"People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want."
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"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."
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"Fear makes you a stranger to yourself."
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"The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear."
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"All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my doubts. But I knew what it meant to be afraid."
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"Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding with God while everyone else must pass through the priestly bureaucracy."
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"Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages."
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"Sadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of death began to hover over her during that period, as a kind of higher order of lassitude in which she would not have to move the blood in her veins or the air in her lungs; her repose would be absolute- not to think, not to feel, not to be."
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"Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me."
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"I would like to have been born a man, so I could leave too."
Freedom

"Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue."
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"She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them."
Regret

"Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences."
Silence

"The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric."
Life

"But I don't want more things than I need, either."
Simplicity
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