"The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves or on whom she simply depends is want of courage.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
~ Joseph Conrad ~












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