Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer
Migration: Multiculturalism and its Metaphors (2016)
Nature's Nobleman (1844)
Context: Fearless in honesty, gentle yet just,
He warmly can love, and can hate;
Nor will he bow down, with his face in the dust,
To Fashion's intolerant state;
Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer
Migration: Multiculturalism and its Metaphors (2016)
“Spurned pity can turn into cruelty just as spurned love turns into hate.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer
Verschmähtes Erbarmen kann sich in Grausamkeit verwandeln, wie verschmähte Liebe in Haß.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 33.
“There’s freedom in honesty. If you just face it today, tomorrow you can move on to something else.”
Rihanna (1988) Barbadian singer, songwriter, and actress
“To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) Russian author
The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)
“Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Walter Savage Landor http://www.emersoncentral.com/walter_savage_landor.htm, from The Dial, XII (1841)
Graham Greene (1904–1991) English writer, playwright and literary critic
"The Hint of an Explanation" (1948), Twenty-One Stories, 1954
Short Stories
“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath