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The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but als

The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness. – Elias Canetti

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You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. – Elias Canetti

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Names
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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. – Elias Canetti

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Mystery
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Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics. – Nicolaus Copernicus

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My whole life Ive had the fear that I was going to be abandoned. – Halle Berry

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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. Im not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted. – Harlan Coben

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Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. – Marie Curie

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