“How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?”
Alan Moore book Batman: The Killing Joke
Source: Batman: The Killing Joke
“It is one of the advantages of this world that people can hate and be hated without knowing each other.”
— Alessandro Manzoni, book The Betrothed
È uno de' vantaggi di questo mondo, quello di poter odiare ed esser odiati, senza conoscersi.
Source: The Betrothed (1827; 1842), Ch. 4, p. 44
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1950s
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