Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.

Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.

Wizard's Sixth Rule The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.

Wizard's Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.

The only thing you can be is yourself nothing more nothing less

Bags, and Double Bags!" - Zedd

There would be nothing I could do to you that would harm you more than what you're already doing to harm yourself...You are never going to amount to anything. You will always be the worthless muck people scrape from their shoes. You only get one life and you are wasting yours. That's a terrible shame. I doubt you will ever know what it is to be truly happy, to achieve anything of worth, to have genuine pride in yourself. You bring it all on yourself, and I could do no worse to you.