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Fear and Anxiety
J.R.R. Tolkien
I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish tohave them in the neighborhood, intrudinginto my relatively safe world, in which it was, for instance, possible to read stories in peace of mind, free from fear. But the world thatcontained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever cost of peril.
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Fiódor Dostoiévski
If you happen to have a wart on your nose or forehead, you cannot help imagining that no one in the world has anything else to do but stare at your wart, laugh at it, and condemn you for it, even though you have discovered America.
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E.M. Forster
It is not that the Englishman can't feel—it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks—his pipe might fall out if he did.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Wilt Thou not take the doubt of Thy children whom the time commands to try all things in the place of the unquestioning faith of earlier generations?
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel
He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.
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Stephen Hawking
Terror … often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking.
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C.S. Lewis
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins.
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Katherine Larson
To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
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J.R.R. Tolkien
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. J. R. R.
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