Thought

Joseph Campbell

The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
Joseph Campbell, quoted in Matt Ridley and Alina Chan, Viral: The Search for the Origins of COVID-19 (2021) as the epigraph to the first chapter.

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