Sometimes nature is even crueller than politics.

Clive Barker
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The phrase “nature is cruel” is often used to describe the fact that sometimes nature is even crueller than politics. When nature is cruel, it can be hard to see how it can be any worse than politics. If nature was cruel, it might be easy to see how politics could be crueler.

Source: Tonight, Again

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