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“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”

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Author:Aristotle

“True literature is more than just a story someone has told. It must provide the reader with the essence of the world on a moral, philosophical and emotional level.”

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Author:Orhan Pamuk

“I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.”

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Book:The new inquisition: irrational rationalism and the citadel of science

Source: The new inquisition: irrational rationalism and the citadel of science

“We must act out passion before we can feel it.”

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Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.”

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Book:Save Me the Waltz: A Novel

Source: Save Me the Waltz: A Novel

“I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to expand what the lyric could do. I just want the hugeness of experience-which includes philosophical discursiveness-to move at a rate of speed that kept it (because all within one unity of experience) emotional. Also, often, questions became the way the poems propelled themselves forward It brings the reader in as a listener to a confession[.] A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.”

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Author:Jorie Graham