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“I am Indonesian. I don't buy fear of western ghosts. But when you deal with a giant garagasi of sumatera, there's no word worth enough to express the eeriness.”

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Book:My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

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“В детстве Корнелий читал о страхе птицы, которую после неволи выпускают из окна. Открывшийся мир кажется ей жутко громадным и полным угроз. Она рвётся назад - в комнату, в привычную клетку!..”

Fear Freedom

Book:Выстрел с монитора. Гуси-гуси, га-га-га...

Source: Выстрел с монитора. Гуси-гуси, га-га-га...

“I wasn’t about to tell him that I never said anything to anyone who teased me. I just went along with it like it was my joke too. I wanted everyone to like me…”

Fear

Book:Jungle Crossing

Source: Jungle Crossing

“With no one to fear him, it seemed at times as if he didn't exist at all.”

Fear Existence

Book:The Lowlands of Heaven

Source: The Lowlands of Heaven

“He had not been able to see it in himself, but looking at Hungerford, he was able at least to speculate on the possibility that fear, raw, physical fear, had a kind of gift to give, too. Who but the terrified has heard his own heart pounding, listened to his own stertorous breathing, wishing that heart and lungs would be more quiet, and yet learning in their pulsation the lessons of rhythm and metrics? (Anagrams, p. 80)”

Poetry Fear

Author:David Slavitt

“Something like panic struck at Hurlow. Moffat's calm confession of fear withdrew the prop upon which he had leaned. Down there, among the motionless shadows, lurked invisible things, things that were nameless, shapeless and malignant; things which could see without being seen. One of the long lost terrors of childhood returned to him, and like a child he put his hand into Moffat's.”

Fear Horror Panic Supernatural

Author:A.M. Burrage

“They think the government shows people everything —how to work, study, eat, sleep and that’s it. They are afraid of change. They do not understand that if you want to do something, you should do it. You are free, people, free!”

Government Fear Change Power Free

Author:Anton Krotov

“I think locality exercises strange influence over some minds. The peaceful meadow-scenery holds no lurking horrors in its bosom, but in the lonesome moorlands, full of curiously molded boulders, grotesque fancies must assail one there. Creatures seem to come, odd and ill-defined as their surroundings. As a child I had a peculiar horror of those tall, odd-shaped boulders, with seeming faces, featureless, it is true, but sometimes strangely resembling humans and animals. I believe the spinney may be haunted by something of this nature, terrible as the trees. ("The Haunted Spinney")”

Fear Horror Ghosts Supernatural

Author:Elliott O'Donnell

“Fear of God is a beginning of knowledge. The fear lessened on a higher knowledge. Walk with God is on the top of knowledge.”

Fear Knowledge Walk With God

Book:My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God.”

God Faith Christianity Birth Theology Catholicism Baptism Infant Baptism

Book:Unless You Become Like This Child

Source: Unless You Become Like This Child

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