Number four is the fear of a loss of love from someone, upon which that form of schizophrenia known as jealousy is based. Jealousy doesn’t require a reason; it can be just as violent and just as destructive where there is no basis for it, as where there is a basis. But it is a motivating force and a fear. Number five is the fear of old age. I don’t know why men and women should be afraid that they are going to dry up and blow away when they get to that nice ripe old age of forty to fifty. The real achievements of the world were the result of men and women who had gone well beyond the age of
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