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"How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt?"
"The only truly intersting side of the matter was the intimate design of the injury, the fact that it was so penetrating, custom-made exactly to your measure. It's fascinating that hatred should be so personal as to be almost loving. The knife and the wound aching for each other."
"Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. ... The first thing a woman does when she gets a little money into her hands is to hire some other poor wretch to do her housework."
"It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions."
"It is not only our hatred of others that is dangerous but also and above all our hatred of ourselves: particularly that hatred of ourselves which is too deep and too powerful to be consciously faced. For it is this which makes us see our own evil in others and unable to see it in ourselves."
"No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself."
"Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance."
"Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge."
"Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity."
"The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love."
"Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?."
"Rage-the biggest, truest rage of her adult life-had invaded her like a fever, but it wasn't like any fever she had known previously. It circulated like weird serum, cold on the right side of her body, then hot on the left, where her heart was. It seemed to come nowhere near her head, which remained clear."
"You can't be judgmental about babies. They are all have different needs. I was left with an enduring hatred of cheese because it was forced down me when I was young."
"Good works are continually being undone by the tons of hatred and anger which are being poured out on the world."
"Change is always subjective. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune from all anger, I never feel angry. If am immune from all hatred, I never feel hatred."
"Some of her self-hatred had oozed out with the blood."
"If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again."
"Fear gone, there can be no hatred."
"Hatred is never overcome by hatred but by love."
"Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of nonresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in selfsuffering."
