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" The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination. "

H. P. Lovecraft

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" Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression. "

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