George William Russell - By intensity of hatre...

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

George William Russell

Irish Writer

Born: Apr 10, 1867

Died: Jul 17, 1935

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