An Excess of Phobias and ManiasSenior Scribe Publications, 2003 - 202 pages |
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... spaces such as streets or isolated areas " . Now it is applied to many disabling fears , usually involving a group of fears centering around a distance from a safe place . As a result , agoraphobics usually fear leaving home , going ...
... spaces such as streets or isolated areas " . Now it is applied to many disabling fears , usually involving a group of fears centering around a distance from a safe place . As a result , agoraphobics usually fear leaving home , going ...
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... spaces " , as is commonly stated by some . Again , agoraphobia refers to the fears of streets and crowded places , not to " open spaces " . agriomania : An " obsolete term " for a wild , ferocious mania . agrizoomania : An abnormal or ...
... spaces " , as is commonly stated by some . Again , agoraphobia refers to the fears of streets and crowded places , not to " open spaces " . agriomania : An " obsolete term " for a wild , ferocious mania . agrizoomania : An abnormal or ...
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... space and time which is usually encountered in adolescents and / or as an expression of an autistic or schizophrenic approach to life . Infinity is a terrible thought . I mean , when is it going to end ? -Anonymous aphephobia : An ...
... space and time which is usually encountered in adolescents and / or as an expression of an autistic or schizophrenic approach to life . Infinity is a terrible thought . I mean , when is it going to end ? -Anonymous aphephobia : An ...
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Page 21 - If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
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Page 136 - My apprehensions come in crowds ; I dread the rustling of the grass ; The very shadows of the clouds Have power to shake me as they pass ; I question things, and do not find One that will answer to my mind ; And all the world appears unkind.
Page 127 - The sweet buds every one. When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain. And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Page 59 - Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here : Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.
Page 168 - When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Page 171 - Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love — but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
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