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“Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
“few people know what secrecy there is in the young under terror. No matter how unreasonable the terror, so that it be terror.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. Terror is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and...” James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward spoke of a time of evil that was coming upon the land his inspired mutterings struck terror into...” Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
“We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terrors, they are our terrors; if it has abysses, these abysses belong to us; if there are dangers, we must try to love them.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“But some governments will be timid in the face of terror. And make no mistake about it: If they do not act, America will.” George W. Bush, State of the Union Address
“We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now, that our spirit is stronger, and cannot be broken.” Barack Obama, Inaugural Address
“Why do I always think and dream the most awful things and want to scream in terror?” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“In a society run by terror, no statements whatsoever can be taken seriously. They are all forced, and it is the duty of every honest man to ignore them.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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