"The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly."
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"One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher."
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"whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable."
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"The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies."
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"One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison."
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"As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity."
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"But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate."
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"I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon."
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"Then it is also in my heart to be worthy of your hate."
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"I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words."
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"I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will all my heart. To me an opera is the very climax & cap-stone of the absurd, the fantastic the unjustifiable. I hate the very name of opera - partly because of the nights of suffering I have endured in its presence, & partly because I want to love it and can't."
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"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about."
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"It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind."
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"I mean, it's pretty hard to fight and hate and be angry when you're making music, isn't it?"
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"One can write out of love or hate. Hate tells one a great deal about a person. Love makes one become the person. Love, contrary to legend, is not half as blind, at least for writing purposes, as hate. Love can see the evil and not cease to be love. Hate cannot see the good and remain hate. The writer, writing out of hatred, will, thus, paint a far more partial picture than if he had written out of love."
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"I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it."
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"I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds."
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"As for being sociable, I hate the phoniness in the showbiz world. I know this will be taken wrong, but I don't like clubs and organizations. I was never a joiner."
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"When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death."
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"[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together."
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