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"The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear."
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"You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy."
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"Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences."
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"At the advent of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the human heart: one very reasonably invites a man to consider the nature of the peril and the means of escaping it; the other, with a still greater show of reason, argues that it is too depressing and painful to think of the danger since it is not in man's power to foresee everything and avert the general march of events, and it is better therefore to shut one's eyes to the disagreeable until it actually comes, and to think instead of what is pleasant. When a man is alone he generally listens to the first voice; in the company of his fellow-men, to the second."
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"The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self - absorption and self - sufficiency... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed."
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"There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead."
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"A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man."
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"There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement."
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"Your children don't have to fear you to respect you."
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"I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print."
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"Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating."
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"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique."
Experience


"To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other."
Crime


"The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear."
Fear


"The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race."
God


"But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep."
Love


"Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?"
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"My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise."
Lie


"Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name."
Poetry


"The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?"
Love


"Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die."
Heart
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