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You might be afraid of the dark, but the dark is not afraid of you. That’s why the dark is always close by.Lemony Snicket
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They'd listen silenty, with grave faces: but once they'd turn to each other they'd smile cruelly. He couldn't have it both ways. He'd put himself outside and outside they'd make him stay. Neither brutality nor complaining could force a way in.John McGahern