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"How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next-if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions-you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to."
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"Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society."
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"Fear deprives us the fullness of existence."
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"Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark."
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"A monster's worst fear is of being found."
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"Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it."
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"Until you break through the walls of fear, you will not be able to reach the door of opportunity."
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"So many horrid Ghosts."
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"There are things so horrible that even the dark is afraid of them. Most people don't know this and this is just as well because the world could not really operate if everyone stayed in bed with the blankets over their head, which is what would happen if people knew what horrors lay a shadow's width away."
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"Do not allow the anxiety on how you will achieve your goals stop you from dreaming."
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"Fear totally obliterates a person, it makes people tolerate what is impossible to handle."
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"All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard."
Humor
"For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control. I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go."
Creativity
"Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along."
Imagination
"We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?"
Hope
"A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant."
Creativity
"This form of love is like the painof childbirth: so intenseit's hard to remember afterwards."
Love
"How did the war creep up? How did it gather itself together? What was it made from? What secrets, lies, betrayals? What loves and hatreds? What sums of money, what metals?"
Conflict
"Could it be he was feeling a certain nostalgia for the war, despite its stench and meaningless carnage? For that questionless life of instinct?"
Emotion
"Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck."
Emotion
"Gardening is not a rational act."
Gardening
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