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“I must say a word about fear.
It is life’s only true opponent.
Only fear can defeat life.
It is a clever, treacherous adversary,
how well I know.
It has no decency, respects no law
or convention, shows no mercy.
It goes for your weakest spot,
which it finds with unnerving ease.
It begins in your mind, always …
so you must fight hard to express it.
You must fight hard to shine the
light of words upon it.
Because if you don’t, if your fear
becomes a wordless darkness that
you avoid, perhaps even manage
to forget, you open yourself to further
attacks of fear because you never truly
fought the opponent who defeated you.”
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