Max BrooksI think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears.
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Most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears. People prefer to be faced with something tangible and present, like a real person or a known threat, rather than a terrible thing that they imagine. They would do almost anything to overcome the imaginary fear and the pain that comes with it. Our fears can be entirely imagined; we can’t touch them, but we can imagine them all we want.
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