The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate.

Franz Werfel
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  3. Isn't it funny. I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need... - Janet Fitch

  4. Men build too many walls and not enough bridges. - Joseph Fort Newton

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  1. For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.

  2. Which road, which road did you take That brought you here at last? No road, no road did I take. I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream.

  3. ... failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)

  4. Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.

  5. We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go.

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