"Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passio...












Hate is a lack of imagination.

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"The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching.
"You don't bless what you love...It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't...
"When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laught...
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"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
"Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.
"When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when yo...
"When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity – that was a quality God’s image carried with it. When you saw the l...