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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. – Cyril Connolly

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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. – Cyril Connolly

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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether. – Cyril Connolly

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I dont run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet. – Nadia Comaneci

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I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past. – Julia Ward Howe

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Replace fear with gratitude, and your whole world changes. – Terri Guillemets, “A renewed outlook,” 2007

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We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays. – Aulus Persius Flaccus

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Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not. – Stephen Vizinczey

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Friendships the privilege of private men for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. – Nahum Tate

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