If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
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We aren't pigs as you seem to think, but human beings. We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.
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Permalink to quote #15 Then came those years in which I was forced to recognize the existence of a drive within me that had to make itself small and hide from the world of light. The…
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