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    I don’t believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
    Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen] (1885–1962)

    All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
    —Isak Dinesen (1885–1962)