Translation of "to fear" into French

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Craindre l'amour, c'est craindre la vie et ceux qui craignent la vie sont déjà aux trois quarts morts.

And so we brought about precisely what we were pretending to fear.

Et nous avons ainsi provoqué exactement ce que nous feignions de redouter.