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"We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
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"What is the proper limit for wealth? It is first to have what is necessary and second to have what is enough."

"There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives?"

"What must be shall be and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing."

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
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