“I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.”
Max Frisch (1911–1991) Swiss playwright and novelist
Sketchbook 1966-1977
“Putting a grenade into a bunker had the satisfaction of doing grievous bodily harm to an enemy for whom I felt real hatred, and still do.”
Source: Quartered Safe Out Here (1992), p. 127.
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