“And everything that he saw before him
He despised or hated.”
Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841) Russian writer, poet and painter
"The Demon" (1830)
Poems
“I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.”
— Emily Brontë, book Wuthering Heights
Source: Wuthering Heights
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She paused a long time, and looked up to meet her mother’s eyes squarely. “But when he’s cut, I bleed.”
Chapter 12 (p. 184)
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