A small wooden figure casts two shadows in opposite directions across cracked orange ground.

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Tori Amos

The dark side is not something most people think is inside them.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker says most people do not believe they carry a dark side within themselves. It points to a common reluctance towards self-knowledge: darkness is easier to imagine in others than to recognise in one's own character.

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