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You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the true primordial passion. It is love that's abnormal. That is why Christ was killed: he spoke against nature. You don't love

You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the true primordial passion. It is love that's abnormal. That is why Christ was killed: he spoke against nature. You don't love someone for your whole life - that impossible hope is the source of adultery, matricide, betrayal of friends ... But you can hate someone for your whole life - provided he's always there to keep your hatred alive. Hatred warms the heart.

Umberto Eco
Betrayal, Hate, Passion
Umberto Eco (2011). “The Prague Cemetery”, p.355, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.

Umberto Eco
Beautiful, Hate, Destiny
Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

He who laughs does not believe in what he laughs at, but neither does he hate it. Therefore, laughing at evil means not preparing oneself to combat it, and laughing at good means denying the power through which good is self-propagating.

Umberto Eco
Hate, Believe, Mean
Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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