“If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.”

— Paulo Coelho, book The Devil and Miss Prym

Variant: Fear again. If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym

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Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947

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