Knowing someone’s name meant knowing that the other person was a human being and not “the enemy.” Knowing someone’s name transformed him into a unique and special individual, with a past and a future, with ancestors and possibly descendants, a person who has known triumphs and failures. People are their names; they’re proud of them; they repeat them thousands of times in their lifetime and identify with them. It’s the first word they learn after “Daddy” and “Mummy. Paulo Coelho
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  2. Hate the sin, love the sinner. - Mahatma Gandhi

  3. The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when you simply don't bother about that person! - Amish Tripathi

  4. Hate is... It's too easy. Love. Love takes courage. - Hannah Harrington

  5. Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make. - Euripides

More Quotes By Paulo Coelho
  1. One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

  2. When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

  3. So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

  4. If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him...

  5. Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

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