"We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them."

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"We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them."

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

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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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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"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."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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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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"Fear is a society induced state of confusion."

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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."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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