„If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.“

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— Salman Rushdie, buch The Satanic Verses

Quelle: The Satanic Verses

Letzte Aktualisierung 3. Juni 2021.

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Britisch-indischer Romancier und Essayist 1947

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„In a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights," the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful.“

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— David Mitchell, buch Cloud Atlas

"An Orison of Sonmi~451", p. 303 (Nook Edition)
Cloud Atlas (2004)

„Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love…“

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— Henry Taylor English playwright and poet 1800 - 1886

Wisdom.
Notes from Life (1853)

„God is Love. And Love must love. And to love there must be a Beloved.“

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— Meher Baba Indian mystic 1894 - 1969

"The Lover and the Beloved", p. 1.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
Kontext: God is Love. And Love must love. And to love there must be a Beloved. But since God is Existence infinite and eternal there is no one for Him to love but Himself. And in order to love Himself He must imagine Himself as the Beloved whom He as the Lover imagines He loves.

„When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.“

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— Diane Setterfield, buch The Thirteenth Tale

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„When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.“

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— Masashi Kishimoto Japanese manga artist 1974

Variante: The moment people come to know love, they run the risk of carrying hate.

„My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.“

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— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

The monster to Robert Walton in Ch. 24
Frankenstein (1818)

„[The value and dignity of the individual] is threatened whenever it is assumed that individual desires, hopes and ideals can be fitted with frictionless harmony into the collective purposes of man. The individual is not discrete. He cannot find his fulfillment outside of the community; but he also cannot find fulfillment completely within society. In so far as he finds fulfillment within society he must abate his individual ambitions. He must 'die to self' if he would truly live. In so far as he finds fulfillment beyond every historical community he lives his life in painful tension with even the best community, sometimes achieving standards of conduct which defy the standards of the community with a resolute "we must obey God rather than man."“

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— Reinhold Niebuhr American protestant theologian 1892 - 1971

The Irony of American History (1952)

„The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base.“

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— Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

„Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light.“

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— J.M. Coetzee, buch Slow Man

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„It is written (1 John 4:16): "He that abideth in charity abideth in God, and God in him." Now charity is the love of God. Therefore, for the same reason, every love makes the beloved to be in the lover, and vice versa… the beloved is said to be in the lover, inasmuch as the beloved abides in the apprehension of the lover, according to Philippians 1:7, "For that I have you in my heart": while the lover is said to be in the beloved, according to apprehension, inasmuch as the lover is not satisfied with a superficial apprehension of the beloved, but strives to gain an intimate knowledge of everything pertaining to the beloved, so as to penetrate into his very soul.“

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— Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologica

Quelle: Summa Theologica (1265–1274) I-II, q. 28, art. 2

„There is a powerful expression of our yearning. But now that we have the revolutionary spirit, we must not lose sight of the brotherhood awareness. Temper the revolutionary spirit. Culture identification is needed, but we must not let it lead us to hatred. We can become intoxicated and lose sight of our real goal to fully participate in the political system of the United States.“

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— Reies Tijerina American activist 1926 - 2015

Quoted in Chicano Power: The Emergence of Mexican America by Tony Castro, ISBN 0841503214.

„Wishes which cannot be fulfilled are said to be “pious.” It is assumed, apparently, that only profane wishes are fulfilled.“

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— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Austrian writer 1830 - 1916

Unerreichbare Wünsche werden als »fromm« bezeichnet. Man scheint anzunehmen, dass nur die profanen in Erfüllung gehen.
Quelle: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 27.

„As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.“

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— Anne Sexton poet from the United States 1928 - 1974

„Once upon a time these two men had been in the same situation; now the difference between them was like the difference between a wish and its fulfillment. The one was what the other had dreamed of, and therefore they did not know one another anymore. He who has wishes yearns for a friend; but when the wishes have been fulfilled, the friends are the first thing we forget.“

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— Halldór Laxness Icelandic author 1902 - 1998

Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Four: The Beauty of the Heavens

„I seem to see drowned there the loves and the desires and the adventures I had when I wore another body than this. For the water of Haranton, I must tell you, is not like the water of other fountains, and curious dreams engender in this pool.“

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— James Branch Cabell, buch Figures of Earth

Quelle: Figures of Earth (1921), Ch. I : How Manuel Left the Mire
Kontext: "Now I wonder what it is you find in that dark pool to keep you staring so?" the stranger asked, first of all.
"I do not very certainly know," replied Manuel "but mistily I seem to see drowned there the loves and the desires and the adventures I had when I wore another body than this. For the water of Haranton, I must tell you, is not like the water of other fountains, and curious dreams engender in this pool."

„Darkness… When everything that you know and love… is taken from you so harshly… all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge… and no one can save you.“

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— Masashi Kishimoto Japanese manga artist 1974

„When in love, the sight of the beloved has a completeness which no words and no embrace can match: a completeness which only the act of making love can temporarily accommodate“

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— John Berger, buch Ways of Seeing

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„A man who is convinced of the truth of his religion is indeed never tolerant. At the least, he is to feel pity for the adherent of another religion but usually it does not stop there. The faithful adherent of a religion will try first of all to convince those that believe in another religion and usually he goes on to hatred if he is not successful. However, hatred then leads to persecution when the might of the majority is behind it.
In the case of a Christian clergyman, the tragic-comical is found in this: that the Christian religion demands love from the faithful, even love for the enemy. This demand, because it is indeed superhuman, he is unable to fulfill. Thus intolerance and hatred ring through the oily words of the clergyman. The love, which on the Christian side is the basis for the conciliatory attempt towards Judaism is the same as the love of a child for a cake. That means that it contains the hope that the object of the love will be eaten up…“

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— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955

Letter to Rabbi Solomon Goldman of Chicago's Anshe Emet Congregation, p. 51
Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein's God (1997)

„Young people -it is obvious -cannot achieve such a relationship, but they can, if they understand their life properly, grow up slowly to such happiness and prepare themselves for it. They must not forget, when they love, that they are beginners, bunglers of life, apprentices in love- must learn love, and that like all learning wants peace, patience, and composure.“

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— Rainer Maria Rilke, buch Briefe an einen jungen Dichter

On young couples who have not yet matured enough to recognize and respect each other's solitude
Letter Seven (14 May 1904)
Letters to a Young Poet (1934)

„Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.“

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— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist 1956

Quelle: The Palace of Illusions

„If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.“

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