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Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same.

Cornelia Funke

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Cornelia Funke
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: December 10
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Darkness
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Disaster
Thought
Terror
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