“it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people”
Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter
“People who barely know the two of you assume you are close friends; people who know both of you intimately suspect you profoundly hate each other.”
Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas (2006), Recognizing Your Nemesis
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La guerre, c'est un massacre de gens qui ne se connaissent pas, au profit de gens qui se connaissent, mais ne se massacrent pas.
Bizarre, issues 24-31 (1962), p. 102
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“If you've a friend who knows your heart,
Distance can't keep you two apart.”
Wang Bo (650–676) Tang Dynasty poet
(zh-CN) 海内存知己，
天涯若比邻。
(zh-CN) Hai nei cun zhi ji,
Tian ya ruo bi lin.
"Farewell to Perfect Du", in Song of the Immortals: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, trans. Yuanchong Xu (Penguin Books, 1994), p. 37
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