desire of being believed

He who attaches so great an importance to being believed in, as to vouchsafe heaven for this belief, nay, everybody, be he even a malefactor on the cross, must have suffered of a terrible doubt and experienced every form of crucifixion: else he would not buy his faithful followers so dearly. 

The dawn of day by Friedrich Nietzsche 

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Between the acting of a dreadful thing and the first motion, all the interim is like a phantasma or a hideous dream.The genius and the mortal instruments are then in counsel, and the state of man, like to a little kingdom, suffers then the nature of an insurrection.

The tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

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