Quotation by

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
Men

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People are scared because they don’t understand what they are facing. However, once they experience it, the fear disappears because it becomes familiar.

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