“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.” - Yann Martel, Life of Pi
In order for ugliness and evil to conquer beauty, first beauty must be made
to seem ugly and evil. If beauty is feared, if it is portrayed as a threat to
life, then an intentional manipulation of the human mind and psyche can
cause a flight from beauty so as to gain protection from concocted harm. -
Gary D. Barnett
In order for ugliness and evil to conquer beauty, first beauty must be made
to seem ugly and evil. If beauty is feared, if it is portrayed as a threat to
life, then an intentional manipulation of the human mind and psyche can
cause a flight from beauty so as to gain protection from concocted harm. -
Gary D. Barnett
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