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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 b..."

"The love of books was an instant connection, and a true boon for a girl who tended toward shyness, because it was a source of endless conversation."

"Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness."

"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 fore..."

"What he feared the most was that all this hiding had made it impossible for him to ever be found again."

"Call it anything else if you will—fear, anxiety, nervousness, sweating—but “shyness” is the historic word for it."

"When you get shy, you’re simply thinking of yourself. Stop it. Step out of yourself."

"Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know,I do not fear the night aboveAs I fear the friends below."

"Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl."

"Well, we never expected this!" they all say. "No one liked her. They all said she was pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too fond of her tales, haughty, prone to versifying, disdain..."