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Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

Veronica Roth

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
Learning
Control
Impossible
Four
Erudite
Point
Dauntless
Free
Divergent
Fear
Fearless
Becoming

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