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Aung San Suu Kyi

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

Courage

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Aung San Suu Kyi is expressing that her outward appearance of bravery does not match her inner feelings of anxiety. She highlights that courage can coexist with fear, rather than being the absence of it.

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