When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside o…

Hermann Hesse
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When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us. ✨ Hermann Hesse (2000). Demian, p.73, Courier Corporation
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