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• Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical as werewolves. By increasing the information we have about the various causes of the constraints that limit our current opportunities, he has increased our powers to avoid what we want to avoid, prevent what we want to prevent. Knowledge of the roles of our genes, and the genes of the other species around us, is not the enemy of human freedom, but one of its best friends.

  Daniel Dennett

  Opportunity, Enemy, Environmental

  Daniel C. Dennett (2004). “Freedom Evolves”, p.221, Penguin UK

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• And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Eye, Hair, Circles

  "Kubla Khan" l. 51 (1816)

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• At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Greatest Fear, Gone, Firsts

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.553, Macmillan

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• One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond of obligation that these miserable creatures break whenever it suits them to do so; but fear holds them fast by a dread of punishment that never passes.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love Is, Men, Avid

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• If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.

  Samuel Beckett

  Able, Ifs

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.183, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Home, Comfort, Little House On The Prairie

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1969). “Little Town on the Prairie”, Scholastic Incorporated

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• ...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Believe, Monsters, Easy

  Stanislaw Lem (2002). “The Cyberiad”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.

  Joseph Heller

  Discovery, May, Confidence And Courage

  Joseph Heller (1974). “Something Happened”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• I soon came to understand that drink, tobacco and prostitutes were all great means if dissipating (even for a few moments) my dread for human beings. I came even to feel that if I had to sell every last possession to obtain these means of escape, it would be well worth it.

  Osamu Dazai

  Mean, Would Be, Lasts

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• The halls were empty. Charlotte had missed the first bell and would be late, again. Her homeroom teacher would ask her for an excuse and she would say, 'Overwhelming feeling of dread.' That was going to go over nicely.

  Anne Ursu

  Teacher, Feelings, Would Be

  Anne Ursu (2008). “The Siren Song”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.

  Ian Mcewan

  Hurt, Sensual, Elation

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.90, Random House

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• You can't do anything in life. The social barriers in life are so intense and horrific that every encounter is just fraught with so many problems and dread. Every social situation is a potential nightmare.

  Larry David

  Encounters, Nightmare, Problem

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• It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

  J. K. Rowling

  Time, Giving, Potters

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• The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Change, May, Salvation

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

  Bram Stoker

  Dream, Sweet, Pain

  Bram Stoker (2015). “Classic Horror Collection: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Jekyll and Hyde, & The Island of Dr. Moreau”, p.134, Xist Publishing

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• Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Missing, Poison, Tempted

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Realizing, Filled, Determine

  FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Dec 28, 2012

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• The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny Inspirational, Vegetarianism, Average

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• The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off. A dog's wet nose is not strictly speaking the worst of the bunch, but it has it's own peculiar dreadfulness which connoisseurs of the ghastly and dog owners everywhere have come to know and dread. It's like having a small piece of defrosting liver pressed lovingly against you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Friday, Dog, Monday

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10)”, p.231, Random House

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• I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Events, Results

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.302, Xist Publishing

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• There is no delight the equal of dread

  Clive Barker

  Delight, Equal

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Apr 22, 2013

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• Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.

  Ann Brashares

  Waiting, Relief, Too Much

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.287, Delacorte Press

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• Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge.

  Ayn Rand

  People, Evil, Political

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.136, Penguin

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• Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.

  Ian Fleming

  Love Life, Life Is, Awareness

  Ian Fleming (1962). “The Spy who Loved Me”

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• As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being only incidental to this aim. To stay alive under almost any circumstances is a sickness with us. Nothing could be more unhealthy than to “watch one’s health” as a means of stalling death. The lengths we will go as procrastinators of that last gasp only demonstrate a morbid dread of that event. By contrast, our fear of suffering is deficient.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Mean, Years, Numbers

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