“I’ve lived most of my life already and I suppose I can argue myself into believing that I have no great cause to love humanity. However, only a few people have hurt me, and if I hurt everyone in return that is unconscionable usury.”

— Isaac Asimov, book The Gods Themselves

Section 3, Chapter 12, p. 250
The Gods Themselves (1972)

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