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David Hume

"A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty."

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"A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty."

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"Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself."

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"I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced."

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"The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me."

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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."

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"Fear attracts attack."

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"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."

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"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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"We are too scared to be real!"

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"Monsters are real and ghosts are real too they live inside us and sometimes they win."

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