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    Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.
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    Some day I will go to Aarhus
    To see his peat-brown head,
    The mild pods of his eye-lids,
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