...fear...is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defea… - Yann Martel

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...fear...is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life...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.

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Yann Martel (born June 25, 1963) is a Canadian author most famous for his Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi.

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It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent.

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