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1e7d0ce
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"I certainly have not the talent which some people possess," said Darcy, "of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done."
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sociability
social-anxiety
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Jane Austen |
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2f43cd7
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I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.
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truth
social-anxiety
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Daphne du Maurier |
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4ee8f23
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I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.
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yearning
social-anxiety
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Emily Brontë |
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9f59265
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
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mind
social-anxiety
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Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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0cb6507
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I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.
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confidence
social-anxiety
self-esteem
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Charlotte Brontë |
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fdf8c2e
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Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.
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social-anxiety
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Martin Amis |
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dcc3507
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The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.
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social-anxiety
inferiority
shyness
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Daphne du Maurier |
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0aa9af6
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Suddenly he saw himself as others in the crowd must surely see him; a silent, solitary figure, standing apart from the rest. He looked out at the hoardes of singing, laughing people and felt more alone than he'd ever felt in his life. Was this how it was going to be then? Was this who he was? A man apart from his fellows, making the journey through life alone?
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social-anxiety
shyness
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Mary Lawson |
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c536d12
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It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.
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social-anxiety
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George Bernard Shaw |
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19e9c7d
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"Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw them, and I knew what I had to do." The sign read: "Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in-out motion." "It seemed to me," said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane." --
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hermit
social-anxiety
satire
society
genius
insanity
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Douglas Adams |
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3269bd1
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In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings, those people who either are foreigners or who suffer a singular point of view that makes them feel as if they're foreigners - even in their native lands. In our hearts... there also abides a certain suspicion that such people need to feel set apart from their society. But people who initiate loneliness are no less lonely than those who are suddenly surprised by loneliness, nor are they undeserving of our pity.
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lonliness
social-anxiety
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John Irving |
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4d03ab2
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The constant vigilance and my heightened anxiety that I'd screw it up anyway exhausted me, but I persevered.
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perseverance
relationships
social-anxiety
observation
communication
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Tracey Garvis Graves |
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baf6c9a
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Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life: the talkative fellow-traveller, the possibility of children.
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travel
trains
social-anxiety
travelling
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Iris Murdoch |
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92bb07f
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It was hard for me to come up with something on the fly, which is why I preferred, if at all possible, not to say anything at all for fear it wasn't the right thing.
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social-anxiety
communication
mental-health
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Tracey Garvis Graves |
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65b0932
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The happiness of being envied is glamour.
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social-anxiety
validation
glamour
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John Berger |
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d22274c
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He felt himself falling into a state, very common when he was younger, of being totally cut off from the society he was in.
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the-message-to-the-planet
iris-murdoch
social-anxiety
dissociation
outsider
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Iris Murdoch |