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Robertson Davies Quotes

Robertson Davies quotes about fear

Canadian Novelist, Writer August 28, 1913 – December 2, 1995

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Forgive yourself for being a human creature, Ramezay. That is the beginning of wisdom; that is part of what is meant by the fear of God; and for you it is the only way to save your sanity. Begin now, or you will end up with your saint in the madhouse. Robertson Davies
We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have been banished. Of course wonder is costly. You couldn't incorporate it into a modern state, beacuse it is the antithesis of the anxiously worshiped security which is what a modern state is asked to give. Wonder is marvellous but it is also cruel, cruel, cruel. It is undemocratic, discriminatory and pitiless. Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies quote: "I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the..."
I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear. Robertson Davies
I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker. Robertson Davies

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