Quote by Joseph Conrad
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter throu

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? – Joseph Conrad

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Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of ones enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with ones friends. – Joseph Conrad

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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. – Joseph Conrad

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I write entirely to find out what Im thinking, what Im looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. – Joan Didion

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Fear is a huge thing for older people. – James Hillman

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Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we wont have as much censorship because we wont have as much fear. – Judy Blume

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I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. – James Joyce

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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. – Thomas Carlyle

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In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. – James Anthony Froude

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Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nations standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father. – Jim Jeffords

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Adventure is not outside; it is within. – Ray Stannard Baker [David Grayson]

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