Stephen KingSometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.― Stephen King, The Shining
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Stephen King is right. We do create inhuman monsters. And sometimes it takes the darkness of the inhuman to expose the humanity in us. If we never experience a monster, we never understand what it takes to be a human being.
Source: The Shining
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