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"I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side."
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Personal Development
"The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting."
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Personal Development
"You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy."
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Personal Development
"The eye of danger and the face of fear are what really pull off a person's mask."
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Personal Development
"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?"
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Personal Development
"I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind."
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Personal Development
"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."
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"When Jill woke next morning and found herself in a cave, she thought for one horrid moment that she was back in the Underworld."
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"Fear is proof of a degenerate mind."
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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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"When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women."
Woman
"There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious."
Money
"There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment."
Control
"For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood."
Family
"When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died."
Old
"When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live."
God
"But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns."
Family
"But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import."
Life
"Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it."
Woman
"I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress."
Life
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