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"Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
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"May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it) because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he is constructing? Who knows, perhaps he only loves that edifice from a distance, and is by no means in love with it at close quarters; perhaps he only loves building it and does not want to live in it, but will leave it, when completed..."

"I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side."

"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."

"The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting."
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"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."

"There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives."

"It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing."
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